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

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.

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 are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

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.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.