Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

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

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.

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

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

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