 Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. |
| There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications. |
| Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land. |
| We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us. |
| Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. |
| 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 are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures. |
| We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. |
| 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. |
| No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. |
| Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. |
| 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 settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. |
| With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. |
| The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. |
| Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. |
| In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. |
