No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.