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

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

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

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

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.