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

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.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

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.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.