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

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

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.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.