“so disorganized and casual, who proposes the reverse to any ‘totality’, who seems to need only an accumulation of disparate ideal fragments” (90). – regarding Hadrian’s Villa
“The artist (architect) as both something of a bricoleur and something of a scientist!” (105)
“Collision of palaces, piazze and villas, to that inextricable fusion of imposition and accommodation, that highly successful traffic jam of intentions” (106). – regarding Seventeen Century Rome
“Rome provides the most graphic example of collisive fields and interstitial debris… a composition of gridded fields… with conditions of confusion and picturesque happening in between” (107).
“all prevailing grid, the satisfaction of its grid provides are, perhaps, principally of a conceptual and intellectual order. The, apparent, indefinitely extended field, just as it tends to defeat politics, tends to defeat perception” (114) – Regarding NYC
“the ideal of a conglomerate of independent parts has again become replaced by the far more ‘total’ vision of absolute continuity” (128). – regarding Paris
“Centric emphasis, a number of magically useless stabilizers, points or navals which ecentially exhibit a coherent geometry” (156).
“a repetitive exercise which distends the eye” (160) – regarding potentially interminable set pieces
