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

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

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

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.

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.