We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
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.
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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.
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.
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.
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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.
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
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.
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.
