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

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

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

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

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

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

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

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

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

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

We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.

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

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

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