Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

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

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.

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

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

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

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.