“Architecture may well possess moral messages; it simply has no power to enforce them. It offers suggestions instead of making laws. It invites, rather than orders, us to emulate its spirit and cannot prevent its own abuse.”
~ Allain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
See my interpretation of Auden’s famous line: https://christianleithart.com/2019/04/01/a-man-makes-nothing-happen/#architecture#allain-de-botton