Spiro Kostof, "The Education of the Muslim Architect" (1986)

"I have long held that we have been missing a great chance to make architecture a vital part of the general discourse, a public concern like food and politics."

Spiro Kostof. "The Education of the Muslim Architect". 1986

"We need to convey with force that the architectural enterprise is incremental and collaborative, across time; that cities we live in are elaborate, generational devices, always tidying up, never finished; that there are thousand of little incidents, of space and colour and repose, that account for a Venice, a Damascus, an Isfahan, and that these are not accidental not are they attributable to name architects"