We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

The innovative spirit was America’s strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

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

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

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

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.