No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

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.

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

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.

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