California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.