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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.