When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.