Without question, he had more effect on people's interest in architecture and design in the Bay Area than anybody else.

She had an interest in the architecture of garden design, in seeing that the garden was a reflection of the style of the house and a reflection of the life of the owners.

Raymond started industrial design and the streamlining movement,

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.