Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

Everyone will live in his own cathedral.

We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel.

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts.

All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.