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

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

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.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.