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

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

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

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.

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

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

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