Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

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

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

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

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.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...