Frank Lloyd Wright

Ce passage est dédié à F.B dont l'oeil est visiblement happé par tout ce qui est bâti et à J.P, mon grand-père, maçon de la Creuse, encore si vivant dans toutes ces maisons d'une ville de la banlieue sud de Paris et l'hippodrome de Longchamp.

"To the young men who spend their days and nights drafting the plans for new rented aggregates of rented cells upended on hard pavements, he preaches the horizons of his boyhood, a future that's not a mutiplication of credit in the bank or a rise in the rate on callmoney

but a new clean construction, from the ground up, based on uses and needs...

Tell us, doctors of philosophy, what are the needs of a man. At least, a man needs to be notjailed notafraid nothungry notcold not without love, not a worker for a power he has never seen

that cares nothing for the uses or needs of a man

Building a building is building the lives of the workers and dwellers in the building.

The buildings determine civilization as the cells in the honeycomb the functions of a bee."

 

John Dos Passos    [ The big money ]   1936