"A city’s architecture is always a bit like a constructed, psychological version of its people."

"Architecture and psychology suddenly become very close."

"In Switzerland, there’s now this semi-urbanism; architecture that’s neither good nor bad, neither urban nor rural, an…"

"We’re still growing — slowly — but we’ve got a better handle on it now. We could take on even more projects, but we w…"

"Will the world enter a new phase of isolation, nationalization, ideologization? As a paradoxical counterplay to the o…"

"...I do not say any form which you construct this way is a good form, or must lead to a good solution; but there are …"

"[Architects and engineers] must be willing to subordinate themselves to the emerging logic of the shell’s form as it …"

"Among others there are three methods for shaping shells: the freely shaped hill, the membrane under pressure and the …"

"[T]heoretical considerations and derivations … are always based on severe simplifications of the assumptions."

"Heinz Isler’s innovative methods for determining the shape of reinforced concrete shells first became widely known th…"