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" 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. "
Design
Evidence
Space
" 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. "
Today
Confident
World
" Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. "
Building
Think
Architecture
" 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. "
Culture
Environment
Human
" Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. "
Builders
Modernism
Took
" Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. "
Japan
Behind
Craft
" Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? "
Does
Spirit
Place
" God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. "
Men
God
Credit
" Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. "
Architecture
Unique
Great
" Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. "
Disguise
Within
Emptiness
" 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. "
Science
Senses
Art
" In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. "
Tradition
Direction
Craft
" 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. "
Culture
Destroy
Human
" It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. "
Mystery
Act
Creative
" Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. "
Management
Over
America
" Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. "
Freedom
Gone
Sense
" No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. "
Unexpectedly
Ever
Reveal
" Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. "
Extraordinary
Manifest
Insight
" 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. "
Always
Space
Spiritual
" Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive. "
Cultures
Spoiled
Alive
" The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely. "
While
Things
Forgotten
" The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. "
Great
Names
Events
" The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. "
Like
Disease
Values
" 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. "
Stand
World
Great
" 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. "
Appreciate
Understand
Town
" With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. "
Production
Alone
America
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