Part of our troubles results from the tendency to ascribe to architects
— or, for that matter, to all specialists — exceptional insight into
problems of living when, in truth, most of them are concerned with
problems of business and prestige. Besides, the art of living is
neither taught nor encouraged in this country. We look upon it as a
form of debauch, little aware that its tenets are frugality,
cleanliness, and a general respect for creation, not to mention
Creation.
—Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture Without Architects, 1964
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