“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.”
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
