Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

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

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 have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

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".