“A process cannot be described by any other means than by its history.”

«Cities are a collectivity formed by individuals. These individuals act mainly as pedestrians.»

«It is the inhabitant of the city who should have the right and the material possibility to determine the site and shape of his own domicile, to transform it and to continuously improve it. The built volumes of the city would thus change year after year and the cityscape could never be definite. This is `mobile architecture´.»

«… I had the feeling that it would be unfair to deprive the `future user´of his/her right to shape his/her own living space according to his/her own emotional initiative. Such initiative is usually reserved for the designer so the building are the expression of their designer instead of their user… enabling the future user of the built living space to shape his/her environment, built or not built, ant to do this with the minimum amount of interference from the designer. This goal can be attached if the future inhabitant´s decision can be brought to fit with in a technical and conceptual frame which makes his/her decisions harmless both to him/her ant to his/her neighbours. When I say harmless, I mean that it does not endanger the solidity of the structure or the functional  usability of individual and public spaces. Individual decisions should not form obstacles to the individual decisions of others in matters of survival and aesthetic considerations.»

“Greenery is always beautiful”

“A city is a collective `text´, `typed´ by those who want to live there.”

«I have been often told, by people with professional backgrounds, that the inhabitant, especially if we are dealing with collective, is not capable of conceiving a plan. I answered that he is indeed, but training is necessary. I have searched the language to write the necessary manuals which do not impose solutions but which contain useful information to keep this possible.»

«The `ville spatiale´is, perhaps, the first example of breaking away from `shoe box´architecture. In fact, for as long as it has been studied, architecture has always meant building `shoe boxes,´ objects of various forms containing voids. Historic architecture consists of either individual `shoe boxes´or clusters of them.» 

“The old man […] The spatial city, or rather its infrastructure, is the support for a great number of individual, heterogeneous messages. The spatial city, in a way, is the `blank sheet of paper´on which a work is drawn. And it is precisely this nature of the blank sheet of paper that allows nearly every composition in space, heterogeneous or regular ones. This is what is important. The `urban landscape´of the spatial city is definitely aesthetic but it goes far beyond mere aesthetics, at least potentially. It can transmit individual or collective, transformable or definitive messages.

The whole city then becomes an ìnstallation,´a living work of art. Referring to the definition of beauty I gave before, the city can now become ´beautiful.´”

“When I was a schoolboy, I discovered that a house alone does not exist, that it does not end at the outer limits of the ground floor, but continues on to the streets, the garden, then, to the house across the street. The house across the street itself continues into what is in front of it, and so forth. To imagine one house is to imagine the whole world.» 

“An architect does not “create” a city, only an accumulation of objects. It is the inhabitant who “invents” the city: an uninhabitated city, even if new, is only a “ruin” […] As the “user” is not necessarily at the same technical level as the master builder or the planner, what he needs is the possibility to apply a “trial and error” technique. […] It is difficult to reach this goal. It involves finding the preexistent components, the evaluation of possible combinations, and – particularly important – the visualization of possible results. Decisions are left for the artist-spectator (user).”

«`Process architecture´is slow and time consuming. It can go on for generations. Knowing the complete history of such processes can lead us towards a new architecture.»