We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.

Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget.

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.