“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.”
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
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.