The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

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.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

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

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

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