“The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.”
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We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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.
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.