“The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.”
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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.
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.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
