... be able to connect our buildings to the open spaces; this extends our consciousness to our immediate surroundings. Nevertheless, "today general tendency is to see the individual building as a crafted machine, well detailed and smoothly articulated, but held somewhat in isolation from its immediate environment. Modern architecture grew in the atmosphere of the ... machine aesthetic, and so tended to produce a succession of well-crafted objects, surrounded by inarticulate space. Historically this approach has been credible in terms of individual buildings, but less successful when ... o...

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