“Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.”

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn’t impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building…A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret