13 Quotes by Franco La Cecla

But everyone knows architects don’t read, they riffle.

Living is the direct communication between the subconscious of the city and the subconscious of the inhabitants.

It is by now fairly clear that compromised as they [architects] are in their attempt to participate in the festivities of Casino Capitalism, they have long since lost the sense of a profession that could still prove useful…

Architects are completely taken in by their own alibi, and while the ship sinks, they who once had the competency of carpenters are nowadays occupying themselves with paper-hanging: the ship is going down, but the important thing is to seize the last hand in the Casino Capitalism Party Room.

This book is an indictment against the laziness of a profession that used to promise a lot and that today is a washout.

Tourists come to New York so they can feel modern, to buy into the modernity, that delirium extolled by Koolhaas that has been over for quite some time.

…there is a connection between the way in which the suburbs are made and the ugliness of the social life they provoke.

…architecture, even among its most cultured personalities, is a world that reads only what is strictly defined by the discipline of architecture, rather like art critics.

Cities dream of other cities.