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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable

I try to create homes, not houses.

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is

I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that

Every building must have… its own soul.

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not

Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it’s fine with me. I’m interested