“We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.”
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The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
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.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.