“We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.”
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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.