The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

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.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.