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

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

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

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.

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

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

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