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

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

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

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

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

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.