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Invisible Architecture:
“they usually are beautiful to watch unless one is being incompetently sailed. The winner often appears the most beautiful because it is most inspiringly and capably sailed. The winning boat of yesterday’s race may be sailed today by an incompetent, careless helmsman and appear ugly though it is the same boat which yesterday appeared to be so beautiful. So too will the architecture of the new era be the inadvertent qualities and attitudes manifest directly or indirectly by its occupants. While one of two identically designed dwellings may appear beautiful because of its dweller’s competence and consideration for others the identical dwelling may appear ugly because selfishly and incompetently occupied. Architecture, like music, will be a verb and not a noun. The new architecture will not be for sale. The aesthetic of architecture henceforth will be integrity.”
- This set (A)-(F) appeared in World Mag., 21 Nov’72, as “The New Architecture.”
¶ Citations
- SET X, p.5, Aug’72
