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

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

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

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

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

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

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.