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.

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

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

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

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.