Means Must Be Subsidiary To Ends And

No Design Is Possible Until The Materials With Which You Design Are Completely Understood

I Don't Want To Be Interesting. I Want To Be Good.

Architecture Is The Real Battleground Of The Spirit.

Where Can We Find Greater Structural Clarity Than In The Wooden Buildings Of The Old. Where Else Can We Find Such Unity Of Material, Construction And Form? Here The Wisdom Of Whole Generations Is Stored. What Feelings For Material And What Power Of Expression There Is In These Buildings! What Warmth And Beauty They Have! They Seem To Be Echoes Of Old Songs.

We Must Be As Familiar With The Functions Of Our Building As With Our Materials. We Must Learn What A Building Can Be, What It Should Be, And Also What It Must Not Be.