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

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

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.

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".

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.