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

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.

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

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

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