“The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.”
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Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.