Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

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

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

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

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.

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