After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.