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.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

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

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

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

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.