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

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

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

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

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.