Nothing Is As Dangerous In Architecture As

God Created Paper For The Purpose Of Drawing Architecture On It. Everything Else Is At Least For Me An Abuse Of Paper.

Just As It Takes Time For A Speck Of Fish Spawn To Develop Into A Fully Grown Fish, So, Too, We Need Time For Everything That Develops And Crystallizes In The World Of Ideas. Architecture Demands More Of This Time Than Other Creative Work.

Our Time Is So Specialised That We Have People Who Know More And More Or Less And Less.

The Best Standardisation Committee In The World Is Nature Herself, But In Nature Standardisation Occurs Mainly In Connection With The Smallest Possible Units: Cells. The Result Is Millions Of Flexible Combinations In Which One Never Encounters The Stereotyped.

The Tubular Steel Chair Is Surely Rational From Technical And Constructive Points Of View. It Is Light, Suitable For Mass Production, And So On. But Steel And Chromium Surfaces Are Not Satisfactory From The Human Point Of View.