In short, the architect is an artist, but in a renewed sense he is more than anything a ‘trend-setter’.

...perhaps powerful architects are worse than powerful philosophers; at a certain point they lose themselves in their heavenly kingdom.

Today Barcelona is at a rather complicated crossroads. The revolution that the architects have achieved there has been absorbed by the branding to which the same architects and administrators have given too much credit. If your city transforms itself into a logo, sooner or later it is better if you go and live somewhere else.

Today even the street-people have to beg pardon, or find a disguise so as not to disrupt the general décor.

Cities dream of other cities.

…architecture, even among its most cultured personalities, is a world that reads only what is strictly defined by the discipline of architecture, rather like art critics.

…there is a connection between the way in which the suburbs are made and the ugliness of the social life they provoke.

Tourists come to New York so they can feel modern, to buy into the modernity, that delirium extolled by Koolhaas that has been over for quite some time.

This book is an indictment against the laziness of a profession that used to promise a lot and that today is a washout.

Architects are completely taken in by their own alibi, and while the ship sinks, they who once had the competency of carpenters are nowadays occupying themselves with paper-hanging: the ship is going down, but the important thing is to seize the last hand in the Casino Capitalism Party Room.