A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.