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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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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.
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
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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.
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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.
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The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.
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Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
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We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
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Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
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