The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

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

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

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

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.