“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.”
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
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.
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
