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

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

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

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

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

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