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A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

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

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.