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

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

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

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

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.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.