Trend Is Not Destiny.

Architecture Is Either The Prophecy Of An Unformed Society Or The Tomb Of A Finished One.

Everyone Aimed At Security: No One Accepted Responsibility. What Was Plainly Lacking, Long Before The Barbarian Invasions Had Done Their Work, Long Before Economic Dislocations Became Serious, Was Inner Go. Rome’s Life Was Now An Imitation Of Life: A Mere Holding On. Security Was The Watchword – As If Life Knew Any Other Stability Than Through Constant Change, Or Any Form Of Security Except Through A Constant Willingness To Take Risks

While A Great Many Other Ideas And Measures Are Of Prime Importance For The Good Life Of The Community, That Which Concerns Its Architectural Expression Is The Notion Of The Community As Limited In Numbers, And In Area... To Express These Relations Clearly, To Embody Them In Buildings And Roads And Gardens In Which Each Individual Structure Will Be Subordinated To The Whole - This Is The End Of Community Planning.

If There Are Favourable Habitats And Favorable Forms Of Association For Animalsand Plants, As Ecology Demonstrates, Why Not For Men? If Each Particular Natural Environment Has Has Its Own Balance; Is There Not Perhaps An Equivalent Of This In Culture?

Do You Want To Know What I Most Regret About My Youth? That I Didn't Dream More Boldly And Demand Of Myself More Impossible Things; For All One Does In Maturity Is To Carve In Granite Or Porphyry The Soap Bubble One Blew In Youth! Oh To Have Dreamed Harder!