Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.