Ben van Berkel

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave…

— Ben van Berkel

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

— Ben van Berkel

In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground…

— Ben van Berkel

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People…

— Ben van Berkel

That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed.…

— Ben van Berkel

Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as…

— Ben van Berkel

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

— Ben van Berkel