With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

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

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

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.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.