Builders Eventually Took Advantage Of The Look

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.

After 1980, You Never Heard Reference To Space Again. Surface, The Most Convincing Evidence Of The Descent Into Materialism, Became The Focus Of Design. Space Disappeared.

Life Is Rich, Always Changing, Always Challenging, And We Architects Have The Task Of Transmitting Into Wood, Concrete, Glass And Steel, Of Transforming Human Aspirations Into Habitable And Meaningful Space.

We Regard Those Other Cultures Such As That Of India, Where Many People Live And Believe And Behave Much As They Did 1000 Or 2000 Years Ago - As "undeveloped".

The Great Dream Merchant Disney Was A Success Because Make-believe Was What Everyone Seemed To Need In A Spiritually Empty Land.