We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Read Summary
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. Read Summary
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Read Summary
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Read Summary
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Read Summary
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. Read Summary
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. Read Summary
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. Read Summary
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Read Summary
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. Read Summary
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Read Summary
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. Read Summary
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. Read Summary
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. Read Summary
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. Read Summary
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Read Summary
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Read Summary
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. Read Summary
The space within becomes the reality of the building. Read Summary
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. Read Summary