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• Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible…
• Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
• A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
• The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
• Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
• Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.
• In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
• All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or…
• I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
• If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a…
• Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there…
• You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture,…

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