Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

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.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

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.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.