Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Main Street is almost alright.

The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.