Architect

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

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.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

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

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

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

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

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

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

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.

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.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.