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

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

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