Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

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

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.

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.

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

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