Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building or architecture is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Even at the United Nations where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent one window not so great.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

Buildings should serve people not the other way around.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and above all timesaving to make them identical.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.

I love building spaces: architecture furniture all of it probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

A city building you experience when you walk a suburban building you experience when you drive.