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I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. . . Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism-real life-the now.

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Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings. . . based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Architecture, Human, Inimical, Planning, Towns
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All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

Cities, Space, Law, Realm, Buildings, Positive

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

Spiritual, Reality, Illustration, Material, Express, Squander

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Analogies, Architecture, Imitate, Models

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

Affect, Bottles, Contains, Doe, Fluidity, Rigidity

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

Autonomous, Cities, Limits, Number, Small Numbers, Urban
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