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

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 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".

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

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.

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

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.