“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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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
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.
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.