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.
Arthur Erickson
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
results deeds action history
man history
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
experience
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
design men action self
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
mystery self
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
method order
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
order
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
dreams success
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
system
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
beauty
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
work
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
chance architecture worth work
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
wonder wonders dreams design
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
architecture choice
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
buildup
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