The best evidence of a mind is when you change it.
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past.
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last.
Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines – lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure.
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.