Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

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

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.

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

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.