“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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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.