Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within..

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture..

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….

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption..

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.….

The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely....

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive..

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land..

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

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

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

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

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the f….

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it..

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….

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly..

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….

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transform….

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outw….

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

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