The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

When I'm in London Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

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

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.

It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.