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.

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.

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

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

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

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.