Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.