“ The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. ”
Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.
~ Michael Graves
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
