The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

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 are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

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.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.