'This is mystification'

Two great old school BBC documentaries about art & architecture. Some quotes:

Stewart Brand: 'What I'm really interested in, is not architecture; it's buildings. The problem with architecture is that it's allergic to time. Because architects keep being asked to create lasting monuments, frozen in time. But buildings have no such presumption. Buildings live in time, the same way we do. In time we learn, in time buildings learn.'

The San Francisco Cliff House (one of Brands examples)

John Berger: 'The images come to you, you don not go them. The days of pilgrimage are over. [...] Religiosity is a substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible.'

Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov (partly shown in Ways of Seeing)