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

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

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.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.