My Favorite Material Is Light: & Other Quotes by Architects

My Favorite Material Is Light collects more than 500 quotations from architects across history and around the world, among them Frank Lloyd Wright, Zaha Hadid, Le Corbusier and Shigeru Ban. Their remarks offer opinions, insights and advice on how architects see the built world and what it could become, of interest to students, practitioners and general readers alike.

Compiled by the Phaidon Editors, the book is organised in chapters on subjects from beauty, clients and light to materials, sustainability and scale. Many quotations were newly sourced from monographs, letters, interviews and essays, and each is given with its original source. The quotes are set in a range of bold typefaces, and the 320-page book is bound in an embossed leatherette case measuring 203 x 137 mm.