A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.