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

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

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

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

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

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

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.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

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

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

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

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

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

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

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.