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.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

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.

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