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

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

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

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