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

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

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

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.