The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolat….

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity..

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit..

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same..

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the a….

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within..

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems..

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our ow….

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the a….

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single ….

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "und….

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process..

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning..

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them..

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression..

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to c….

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the u….

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line..

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspirat….

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existe….

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of desi….