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.

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

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.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

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.

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.