You Have to Pay for the Public Life by Charles W. Moore

“A work of architecture is a statement of beliefs, a projection of our attitude toward reality into a three-dimensional environment. The importance of this must be kept in mind. We each know only a small portion of what is. Environment is that piece of reality which gets through to us; which passes the highly selective screen that sifts the world into comprehensible experiences, a screen lodged partly in each person’s brain and partly in the specific spinning of circumstances. What we do, the way in which we respond, is a projection of that screen—it brings it into the open for scrutiny and in turn selects and sifts the experiences of others.”

-Donlyn Lyndon, 1965