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

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.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

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.

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

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.