Ralph Thomas Walker

“The skyscraper is the greatest contribution to the American city.”

“A city is a place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.”

“Modernism is not a style, it is a state of mind.”

“Architecture is the art of organizing space.”

“The architect of today must be a sociologist, a psychologist, an economist, a city planner, and a philosopher.”

“Beauty is the byproduct of a job well done.”

“The future of architecture is culture.”

“Let us not be afraid of the machine. It is our slave.”

“There is a verse in the Bible which has been my text in my architectural life: 'The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner'.”

“I am convinced that we are on the threshold of a new art, a new architecture, a new life.”