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.

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

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

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.

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

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