“Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.”
“...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.”
“Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.”
“Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.”
“Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.”
“A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.”
“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller”