Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.