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

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.

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

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.

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