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

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures..

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom..

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad..

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems..

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

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly..

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of th….

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America..

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..

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land..

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning it….

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today..

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us..

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

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them..

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film..

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart..

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist..

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture..

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes arch….