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

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

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.