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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.