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

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

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

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

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.