“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”
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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.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
