If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

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

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.

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

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

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