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.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

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

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

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

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