Villages in the Sun [antikvár]

FOREWORD Prevailance of" order Prevailance of commonness Being is of order Desire co be of order is life To live is CO express. The spare atmosphere of Mars cells us of this prevailance co be; noc of the accicude not of the choice, the vectors to the character of living forms and shapes. In outer space the Earth is felt in wonder as if for the first time. This marble, blue-green and rose, unique in our system makes us realize that man's work can be like no other. The builder seeking a beginning is primed by his feelings of commonness and the inspirations of Nature. Just a fragment of knowing steers wonder to intuition and to the acts of expression. In the presence of the mountain the water the wind the desire to express feels the possible. The site confirms the possible and encourages agreement on the beginning in the making of a man's place. A mere foothold is confident of the settlement, the first institution of man. The works of man reveal his nature. The time of a work holds its own validity from which the sense of truth can be drawn to inspire a work of another time. The city from a simple settlement became the place of the assembled institutions. The measure of the greatness of a city must come from the character of its institutions established by those sensitive to commonness and dedication to man's desire for higher levels of expression. The places of the island the hamlet the mountain draws us to them for their simple truth. To leave them for the city must bring revived faith in new beginning. A city must ever be greater and greater. Commonness is the spirit Art A work of art is an offering to Art. Louis Kahn, 1969