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...

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

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

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

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.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.