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

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

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

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

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.