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

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

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

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

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

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

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.