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

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

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

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

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".

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.