The doctrine of salvation by bricks

When we try to justify good shelter instead on the pretentious grounds that it will work social or family miracles we fool ourselves. Reinhold Niebuhr has called this particular self-deception, “The doctrine of salvation by bricks.”

  1. ​When our forces are resolved​
  2. ​The doctrine of salvation by blocks​

And yet, there is something to the idea that truly "good" buildings and places (in the quality-that-has-no-name sense) do have the power to shape and improve the lives led within it, and even to heal people.