We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
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.
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
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 essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
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.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
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.
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.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
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.
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 incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
