Quotes

In the landscape of the automobile, the architecture becomes insignificant, a pimple on the landscape of parking lots. The lesson of Las Vegas is that, in order to be read in that context, architecture cannot be a refined, detailed form to be savored as you walk by it at three miles an hour. It must be symbolic, not pure, if it is to be read at 70 miles an hour.

Architects can no longer afford to be intimidated by the puritanically moral language of orthodox modern architecture. I like elements which are hybrid rather than 'pure,' compromising rather than 'clear,' distorted rather than 'straightforward' ... I am for messy vitality over obvious unity ... I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning.