Education is inoculation against disruption.
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.
Technology is the answer, but what was the question?
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.
I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.