We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

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

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.

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

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.