We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.
I do not write, I build.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
