“Loneliness was the price of the quest. I don't belong to the people who cannot live alone”

“Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.”

“If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.”

“Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.”

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“Loneliness was the price of the quest. I don't belong to the people who cannot live alone”

“Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.”

“True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.”

“Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.”

“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

“What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.”