Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
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.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
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.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
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.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
