Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

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.

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

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

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

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

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