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As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Horizontal and vertical sprawl ... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.