The entire system is as precise as any that has ever guided the hand of the architecture. Modern architects recognize 300 masterpieces but ignore the other 30 million buildings that have ruined the world. Gehry and Eisenman can no longer get our attention. The only remaining radical act that will scandalize critics accustomed to everything is to build a classical building. What condemns modernism is not its theory, but its practice.
Modernism is predicated on ignorance of the past.
Craftsmen work in a pre-literate world. As a cultural institution, Disney is more influential than Harvard. There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. It attempts to compress the complexity, which is the purview of an entire street, into the ornament of a single building, there to call it the architecture of the real world. Disneyworld is more authentic.