But In Practice Master Plans Fail -

I Mean, Making Simulations Of What You're Going To Build Is Tremendously Useful If You Can Get Feedback From Them That Will Tell You Where You've Gone Wrong And What You Can Do About It.

We Are Searching For Some Kind Of Harmony Between Two Intangibles: A Form Which We Have Not Yet Designed And A Context Which We Cannot Properly Describe.

Every Place Is Given Its Character By Certain Patterns Of Events That Keep On Happening There. These Patterns Of Events Are Locked In With Certain Geometric Patterns In The Space. Indeed, Each Building And Each Town Is Ultimately Made Out Of These Patterns In The Space, And Out Of Nothing Else; They Are The Atoms And Molecules From Which A Building Or A Town Is Made.

One Begins To Think With That New Building Block, Rather Than With Littler Pieces. And Finally, The Things Which Seem Like Elements Dissolve, And Leave A Fabric Of Relationships Behind, Which Is The Stuff That Actually Repeats Itself, And Gives The Structure To A Building Or A Town.

In My Life As An Architect, I Found That The Single Thing Which Inhibits Young Professionals, New Students Most Severely, Is Their Acceptance Of Standards That Are Too Low.