Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. |
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. |
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? |
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. |
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. |
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. |
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. |
Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture. |
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. |
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. |
We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped. |
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. |
The heart, not the head, must be the guide. |
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. |
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. |
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. |
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. |
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. |
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. |
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. |