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

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

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

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

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

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.

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

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

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

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.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

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

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

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.