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.

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

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

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

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

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.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

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.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

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.