The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
