Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where like all desert dwellers they dream their buildings rather than design them.
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.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
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.
We are stymied by regulations limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.