Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

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.

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

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

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

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

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.