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.

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

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

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

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 celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

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

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