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

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

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

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

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.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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