Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

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.

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

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.