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Manhattanism Is The One Urbanistic Ideology That Has Fed, From Its Conception, On The Splendors And Miseries Of The Metropolitan Condition—hyper-density—without Once Losing Faith In It As The Basis For A Desirable Modern Culture. Manhattan's Architecture Is A Paradigm For The Exploitation Of Congestion.

Most Old Cities Are Now Sclerotic Machines That Dispense Known Qualities In Ever-greater Quantities, Instead Of Laboratories Of The Uncertain. Only The Skyscraper Offers Business The Wide-open Spaces Of A Man-made Wild West, A Frontier In The Sky.

Architecture Is A Dangerous Mix Of Power And Importance.

Sustainability Has Become An Ornament.

There Are Essentially Two Possibilities. One Is To Be, Shall We Say, An Average Architect And Do The Same Thing Everywhere. The Other Is To Let Yourself Be Inspired And Even Changed By The Unique Qualities Of The Place Where You're Building. We Always Try To Take The Second Approach.