What Is The Thread Of Western Civilization

Does An Architecture To Assuage The Spirit Have A Place In All This? Unfortunately We Are No Longer The Interpreters Of Our Culture's Myths But The Followers Of That Dubious Client, The Developer, Who Has Little Patience With The Art Of Architecture, The Fine Detail And Obscure Promise, Which Can Upset His Financial Activity.

The Details Are The Very Source Of Expression In Architecture. But We Are Caught In A Vice Between Art And The Bottom Line.

Inspiration In Science May Have To Do With Ideas, But Not In Art. In Art It Is In The Senses That Are Instinctively Responsive To The Medium Of Expression.

We Can Appreciate But Not Really Understand The Medieval Town. We Cannot Comprehend Its Compactness, The Contiguity Of All Its Buildings As A Single Uninterrupted Whole.

With Production Alone As The Goal, Industry In North America Was Dominated By The Assembly Line, Standardization For Mass Consumption.