"I believe that good architecture should reflect a holistic appreciation of reality. Reality, it is held, has a hierarchy of awarness levels within which there exists both outer and inner dimensions. The outer (ecological) dimension relates to a finite world of limited energy-income from the sun, of fixed energy reserves. The inner, (cultural) dimension relates to human kind, who have an infinite, hidden reseve 0f energy --the spirit-- that can often transcend the limited context of this phenomenal world."
Nader Ardalan Contemporary Architects, 1987, p. 44.
“Comments”. In Conservation as Cultural Survival, edited by Renata Holod. Philadelphia: Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1980.
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Comments to Conservation as Cultural Survival proceedings of Seminar Two in the series Architectural Transformations in the Islamic World. Held in Istanbul Turkey, September 26-28, 1978.
