100 Independently of the name of its creator ) the celebrity ) , the significance of these buildings and the appreciation we have for them lies in the essence of what they represent to us, in what they are, and the way we feel about them . That was the state of mind of these architects when they designed those buildings : they were immersed in the thing itself , thinking about us the users . This school of architects in my view is similar to the unknown craftsmen who created folk art in Japan between the 13 th and 19 th centuries . Soetsu Yanagi, who founded the Museum of Folk Art in Tokyo, documented this art in his book The Unknown Craftsman . He saw this art as the materialization of a world in which the boundaries between art, philosophy and the creator's sense of a religious mission are "blurred", in as much as the creator, by attaining a state of mind in which he is free of his ego, can create pure Art . The artifacts they created he describes as "born and not made" . This approa...
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