Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.