Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short with design.

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.

All architecture is shelter all great architecture is the design of space that contains cuddles exalts or stimulates the persons in that space.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes or fails to come in the first conception and revision only affects the detail and ornament alas!

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today ethics moral.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.

It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.