Architects build in an isolated, self-contained, ahistorical way. They never seem to allow for any kind of relationships outside their grand plan. And this seems to be true in economics too. Economics seem to be isolated and self-contained and conceived of as cycles, so as to exclude the whole entropic process. There is very little consideration of natural resources in terms of what the landscape looks after the mining operations or farming operations are completed. So that a kind of blindness ensues. I guess it's what we call blind profit-making. And then suddenly they find themselves within a range of desolation and wonder how they got there.
Robert Smithson in Jorge Otero-Pailos, “OMA’s Preservation Manifesto” from Preservation is Overtaking Us, 2014
