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

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

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

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.