 Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. |
| The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. |
| 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 tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. |
| The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely. |
| The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. |
| It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. |
| We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist. |
| 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 great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land. |
| We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. |
| Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. |
| Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. |
| Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. |
| The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. |
| 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. |
