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

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

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.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.