​As a model of the city, the American campus may well be more suggestive

than the real thing; certainly it is one of America's truly original contributions

to urbanism."

Michael Dennis, Excursus Americanus

​A…campus may achieve almost complete independence of buildings, but in so

doing it becomes more like a summer camp or a resort than an academic community.

To be a community requires density & proximity; it requires urbanity."

Michael Dennis, On Campus Design & Planning

​…there can be cities without landscape, but landscape without density of

urban buildings and people cannot be a city."

Michael Dennis & Alistair McIntosh, Landscape and the City

​Our whole culture is based on the idea of limitless resources and continuous growth,

and we have become so accustomed to the idea that we have forgotten that we live

on a finite planet."

Michael Dennis, Temples & Towns: Urban Principles for the 21st Century

​The city requires both public and private accommodation, and it is architecture

that must mediate between the two related but not integrated realms."

Michael Dennis, Architecture & the Cumulative City

​Growing slowly, quietly maturing, modern architecture in America was like a

time bomb planted during the Enlightenment, armed during the 1920s, and set

to explode after World War II."

Michael Dennis, Excursus Americanus

​…architects in our time have become very adept at servicing and delivering

complex programs, but they have also become less adept at designing—indeed,

even understanding—the public realm."

Michael Dennis, On Campus Design & Planning

​Despite a continuously developing urban sensibility, however, architecture and

landscape have tended to pursue ever more autonomous, narcissistic, and anti-urban

directions, and this is inadequate to address twenty-first century issues."

Michael Dennis & Alistair McIntosh, Landscape and the City

​What might be proposed instead is a hybrid architecture for a hybrid city, an

architecture of traditional rooms as well as “modern" space, of facades as well as

frames—an architecture that  makes urban space as well as consumes it."

Michael Dennis, Architecture & the Cumulative City

​But more than a century of destructive urban behavior has produced contemporary

architectural and urban conventions that are impotent to address twenty-first century

issues, much less for producing quality urban environments."

Michael Dennis, Temples & Towns: Urban Principles for the 21st Century