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

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

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.

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.