Literary Dose #2
Social and economic relations produce space. To think of the built environment as space rather than a collection of objects is useful because its parts become conjoined within a system, a kind of ecology. Through this ecology we begin to understand the causal relationships between economy, society, and culture on the one hand, and the urban environment on the other.- Setha M. Low
from On the Plaza (2000)
awareness to such issues is what i'd consider good architecture. to merely search for new forms of expression lies more in the realms of art; and art is not architecture. i've been informed that architecture is the lowest form of art. i will not even dispute that believing that there is more to architecture than art; like a responsibility to balance the expression of our imaginations with the ralities of the built world.
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