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

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

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

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

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 not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.