„Yes,
it's f***ing contextual!“
inspired by Skunk Anansie

„Streets
lead like rivers
into the heart of the
concrete sea.“
Petros Markaris

„Athens
is a sea of buildings
in a seemingly
planned grid.
Chtouris/Heidenreich/Ipsen

„Public space
is what is left
over.“

„The City
lives and develops
within its history.“
Aldo Rossi

„The buildings
are not architectural
perfect objects,
but are structures
which are being shaped
by their users.“
Giorgos Simeoforidis

„Modern 'Urbanism'
intends the opposite
of urbanity.“
Wilhelm Kücker

„The
Greek Face of Modernism:
Between functional rationalism
and critical regionalism.

„If
you remove the signs,
there is no city left.
Robert Venturi and Denise Scot Brown

„Architecture
is a language with a distinct
grammar: you can use language as
prose in every-day life
and, if you are really good,
you may be a poet.“
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

„The Sign
High-rise stands for
internationality at the specific site.
The artificial meets Genius loci.“
Friedrich Achleitner

„The typical skyscraper,
a tall building
standing in a degree of isolation,
attracts its own inhabitants
but limits direct communication
with others.“
Rem Koolhaas

„They are immature,
not yet
modern.“
Le Corbusier

„Less
is more.
Mies van der Rohe

„Those buildings
stumble from
fashion to fashion.“
Ada L. Huxtable

„The architecture
is completely
replaced
by an icon,
that reminds of it.“

„The commercial signs
cover whole buildings,
they climb the roofs
trying to demonstrate their
dominance over
architecture.“

„Public space
is a
pictural space.“
Werner Fenz

„In the urban picture overkill
of architectonical images,
images of architecture and
illustrated architecture,
individual messages disappear.
And with them disappears
meaning."

„Towards
white void instead of
white noise.“