Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

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

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

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

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.