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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

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.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

The primary factor is proportions.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

What people want, above all, is order.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.