“Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”

“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.”

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”