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.

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

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

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

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

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