Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.
In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.
You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.
Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.
A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.
