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.

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

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

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

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.