“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
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Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
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.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.