Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

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.

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

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.