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.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

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.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.