In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.

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

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

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

Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.