A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.