Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions. Even more important than painting and sculpture, it is the primary art of our or any other culture. At the same time, the pursuit of architecture comprises a host of delicious occupations. It is the necessary expression of all social considerations no new society without new kinds of buildings. All reformers, the Fabian socialist as well as Franklin Roosevelt, always commissioned new architecture.
Great technologies breed great architecture.
There are no visionary utopias in the minds of philosophers that do not enter the realm of architecture. It is also the most difficult of all the arts. How often I have envied my colleagues who write, paint, or compose music. They live where they like, they work when they want no recalcitrant materials, no leaky roofs, no stopped-up sewers. They tear up their mistakes.