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

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.

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

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

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.

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.