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

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

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

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.