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

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

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 way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

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.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.