There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

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

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

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.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.