We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
Each material has its own message.
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.