Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel." History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.

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

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.