Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

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

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

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

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

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