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And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.