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

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.

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

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.

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.