(Love of Architecture: If we added the single constitutional requirement that al

(Love of Architecture: If we added the single constitutional requirement that all public buildings, all public infrastructure, must be constructed of man-portable, hand-laid materials, then we could both absorb vast amounts of low skilled labor, and return to the production of monumental artworks that last for generations. And we could escape the era of disposable panel-products constructed with machines, that insult us with their very presence. Architecture is our monument: it demonstrates that we improve the land we occupy. It marks the land as ours. It demonstrates our love for it – and for each other. Art evolved as we understand it, to decorate our architectural monuments, public demonstrating our love of man, for what man is capable of with his hands, and such art can only be constructed within arts that were themselves constructed by the hand of man. The devolution of art was both a marxist intention – to destroy our heroic aristocratic traditions, and the product of post-war panel products and industrialization of architecture: industrialization of our monuments. Industrialization of our arts. But it is easily reversible. And no man who builds a monument to his people with his hands, will tolerate insult to the his efforts, the monument, of the sentiment that he contributed to, and constructed, with is own hands. We own what we invest in. And we will not defend that which we do not own. )