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

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.

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.

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.

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