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

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

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

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

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.

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

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.