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

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

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.