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

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

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".

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

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.