As the twentieth century fades, North America is ceding skyscraper supremacy to Asia. Buildings are often loved or hated purely on the basis of their looks, and despite all the sophisticated technical input that goes into their realization, without some spiritual interaction between the structure and its city and people, it can only be regarded as a failure. We were getting bored with the box. I hope that you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the invention of forms. It is not a playground for children young or old.
Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
There were banks pretending to be temples, skyscrapers pretending to be cathedrals, and Madison Square office buildings pretending to be Venetian campaniles-and all were getting gold medals for the pretense. What monuments we leave behind in the form of buildings reveal more clearly than anything the value we place on the quality of life. The technical man mustn't be lost in his own technology. The tall building ought to participate in the city as both a facade, connecting the walls of the street, and as an object against the sky. There are sites on the world wide web that are dedicated purely to one building.