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.

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 "undeveloped".

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

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

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

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.