Dear 3WDave,
This is just to express my sympathy with what you write in your 11/8/2002
11:25 -0500 post. Please continue.
I would agree that architecture (like many other aspects of our material
culture) expresses primarily social patterns of values and only secondarily
intellectual patterns of values. A new/radical/sustainability-inspired
intellectual pattern of values can therefore not be the vanguard of social
progress. Social progress has its own pace which intellectuel patterns of
values can only force to a limited extent.
Is this what you meant?
By the way, where you write: 'in nature ... evolution is an excruciatingly
slow process'
I take you to refer to evolution at the biological level of values.
Evolution at the social level of values is relatively fast compared to
biological evolution (but still excruciatingly slow compared to intellectual
'evolution').
May I suggest you to make a distinction between using 'values' in the
traditional SOMish way (as in 'people changing their values') and in the
MoQish way (in which nothing exists but static patterns of 'values' plus the
dynamic 'value' of change to the better)? In this post you seem to me to use
'values' mainly in the SOMish sense.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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