A Chair Is A Very Difficult Object.

If Teaching Has Any Purpose, It Is To Implant True Insight And Responsibility. Education Must Lead Us From Irresponsible Opinion To True Responsible Judgement. It Must Lead Us From Chance And Arbitrariness To Rational Clarity And Intellectual Order.

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

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.

Architecture Begins When You Place Two Bricks Carefully Together.

Architecture Has The Power To Create Order Out Of Unholy Confusion.