Excelente discurso de Principe Carlos de Inglaterra ontem no Royal Institute of British Architects por ocasião dos 175 anos da associação dos arquitectos ingleses."...Let me point out that I don't go around criticizing other people's private artworks. I may not like some of them very much, but it is their business what they choose to put in their houses. However, as I have said before, architecture and the built environment affect us all. Architecture defines the public realm, and it should help to define us as human beings, and to symbolize the way we look at the world; it affects our psychological well-being, and it can either enhance or detract from a sense of community. As such, we are profoundly influenced by it: by the presence, or absence, of beauty and harmony. I don't think it is too much to say that beauty and harmony lie at the heart of genuine sustainability. I believe that precisely because the built environment defines the public, or civic, realm it should express itself through the fundamental ingredients that define a genuine civilization - in other words, those civic virtues such as courtesy, consideration and good manners..."
http://www.princes-foundation.org/index.php?id=694
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