“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.