“The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal:

to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.”

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”

“Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.”

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

“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.”

“Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.”

“Let us guide our students over the road of discipline

from materials, hrough function, to creative work.”

“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...”