All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice..

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style..

In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian archit….

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus socia….

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of sty….

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting..

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel..

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful..

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station..

Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between t….

Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places fo….

Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupa….

In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, an….

New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur..

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush..

Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake..

The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible….

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold..

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into ….

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is….

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination..