“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”
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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.