Be Truthful. Nature Only Sides With Truth.

Changes In The Traditional Way Of Building Are Only Permitted If They Are An Improvement. Otherwise Stay With What Is Traditional, For Truth, Even If It Be Hundreds Of Years Old Has A Stronger Inner Bond With Us Than The Lie That Walks By Our Side.

The Law Courts Must Appear As A Threatening Gesture Toward Secret Vice. The Bank Must Declare: Here Your Money Is Secure And Well Looked After By Honest People.

Man Loves Everything That Satisfies His Comfort. He Hates Everything That Wants To Draw Him Out Of His Acquired And Secured Position And That Disturbs Him. Thus He Loves The House And Hates Art.

Architecture Arouses Sentiments In Man. The Architect's Task Therefore, Is To Make Those Sentiments More Precise.

If Nothing Were Left Of An Extinct Race But A Single Button, I Would Be Able To Infer, Form The Shape Of That Button, How These People Dressed, Built Their Houses, How They Lived, What Was Their Religion, Their Art, Their Mentality.