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

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

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

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

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.

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

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.