Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.