Here's another one that I don't think needs a lot of unpacking or explanation. John Hench, who was essentially the architect of the original
Disneyland, is one of the few people who knows what it is to make something out of your head that becomes a standard and benchmark in a million other
people's heads. Here he is speaking about Main Street U.S.A.
The forms of these buildings are locked into old associative forms. The old forms weren't designed by some person at a desk, an architect-the designers responded to a kind of group dream, a group aspiration. In the same way, a folk song was not written by some guy at a piano. That represents a lot of experience, and no one person can put it down. In a symbolic way, architecture is the same-an old architectural form has those reassurances locked in there. You take a certain style, and take out the contrdictions that have crept in there through people that never understood it or by accident or by som ekind of emergency that happened once and found itself being repeated-you leave those things out, purify the style, and it comes back to its old form again. It has its old message.Here endeth the lesson.
