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

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.

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

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.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

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 Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.