It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
From Arthur Erickson
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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