High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.
People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.