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

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

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

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

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.

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