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.
From Arthur Erickson
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.
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
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