“Architecture, the pragmatic art of the possible, is always a compromise between the client's demands; the exigencies of the site; the taste of the moment; and the constraints of budget, technology, and building regulations.”
Slate
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“‘What Will Save the Suburbs?’ Here are a few [ideas]: Mind your own business, city dwellers! Start a cult. Move the homeless in. Turn all those homes into schools. Sack the planners! (Alternatively, please don’t vilify planners.)…”
New York Times
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“Working “at risk” or “free” in the hope of obtaining a future contract is also questionable. There’s no such thing as a free sprat to catch a mackerel.”
Building Design
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“Will the current economic crisis shrink this advertising splurge? Will distaste ever get the better of inertia? Will any city have the courage to follow São Paulo? Or is the progressive usurpation of our common possession by crass commerce unstoppable?”
Architects’ Journal
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