Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

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.

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...