“Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?”
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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
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.
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.