After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

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

We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

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

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

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

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

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

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

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

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

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.