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

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

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

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

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

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.