Architecture is the art of organizing a mob of craftsmen. This, the original meaning of the word, expresses an essential fact ... the conceptions of an architect must be worked out by other hands and other minds than his own.

The art of architecture studies not structure in itself, but the effect of structure on the human spirit.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

Rattling the bones is not architecture. Less is only more where more is no good.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

No house should ever be on any hill or anything. It should be of the hill, so hill and house can live together each the happier for the other.

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.