Architecture And Industry

ARCHITECTURE AND INDUSTRY

Man puts his own stamp on the landscape with his works, and the landscape, like language, changes in accord with human needs; man often modifies the results of biological evolution. We can see the human spirit of a particular age expressed in the landscape, and we can comprehend it with the camera. It is the same for architecture and industry and all other large and small works. The landscape within a particular boundary expresses the historic physiognomic image of a nation. If we expand our point of view beyond such boundaries, we can arrive at a comprehensive vision of the nations of the earth in the same way that the observatories arrive at a complete image of their observed heavenly universe. We can arrive at a total vision of the people on earth, a vision that would be of enormous importance to our understanding of humanity.

August Sander, Photography-a Universal Language, Lecture 5,1931