“In China, basically there’s a more top-down decision-making process so there is one boss and he makes the decisions and he controls the project. It makes things a little complicated and dangerous because it’s so fast that you can make big mistakes. I better not say any more about China.”
Architects’ Newspaper
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"I feel immense frustration at the slow pace of change in the face of the increasingly urgent need for more sensitive and responsive human environments. The task is made all the harder by the short-term thinking that still predominates in so many spheres of life: a perspective which threatens at a fundamental level our ability to avert catastrophic climate change.”
BD Online
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"Alister MacKenzie designed some great golf courses, but Sharp Park was his biggest mistake. If it becomes a historic landmark, we are undermining his legacy."
SFGate
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“Old habits die hard, especially in academe, so the dead white maleness of new architecture that does not copy the past half a century of modern architecture - known in its own youth as “the International Style” - remains an obstacle to young architects’ embrace of architecture that is loved by the masses, not just in the West but around the world.”
Projo
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“It can now be said: As environmentally conscious and progressive as many of the early "green" residences were, their design was often not as kind to the eye as it was to the environment. Aesthetics took a back seat.”
TMCnet
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