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

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

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

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.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.