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

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

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

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

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

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

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.