Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

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.

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

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.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

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.