This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

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

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

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

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".