No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

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

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

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.

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

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.