Find optimism in the inevitable.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.