Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

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

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.