“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.”

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

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

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

“Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?”

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

“The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.”

“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”

“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”

“Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.”

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