The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

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.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.