New Ideas Must Use Old Buildings

Writing, Printing, And The Internet Give A False Sense Of Security About The Permanence Of Culture.

Cities Are An Immense Laboratory Of Trial And Error, Failure And Success, In City Building And City Design.

There Are Fashions In Building. Behind The Fashions Lie Economic And Technological Reasons, And These Fashions Exclude All But A Few Genuinely Different Possibilities In City Dwelling Construction At Any One Time.

New Ideas Must Use Old Buildings

Artists, Whatever Their Medium, Make Selections From The Abounding Materials Of Life, And Organize These Selections Into Works That Are Under The Control Of The Artist.... In Relation To The Inclusiveness And Literally Endless Intricacy Of Life, Art Is Arbitrary, Symbolic And Abstracted. That Is Its Value And The Source Of Its Own Kind Of Order And Coherence.