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Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.

The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

Since I was a kid, I liked construction.