We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

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

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

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

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.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.