“In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 7...” — Christian de Portzamparc Quote

“In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.”

“Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.”

“An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.”

“Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.”

“Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.”

“Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.”