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

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.

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.

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.

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.