Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

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

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