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.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

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

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

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.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.