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

The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

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

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.