"I think today we do not know how to go about building a water fountain. What we know is how to build one thousand water fountains. But not how to build one. "https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/that-which-is-unique-breaks …
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"In the case of housing, bad architecture treats a human-scale environment as if it were a commodity-scale problem. The creators of some places see inhabitants not as humans but parameters."
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"If you commoditize toys, you remove the toymaker. If you remove the toymaker, the toy is only an object of consumption. It ceases to be an object of wonder."
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"The more things become commodities, the more we start to treat places and people like commodities, too."
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"Remember: History happens only once. There is no reason things must remain or return to any particular state. We are always free to find our own values. "
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