From A Sequence Of These Individual Patterns,

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.

The Buildings That I Build Very Often Have A Dreamlike Reality. I Don't Mean By That They Have A Fantasy Quality At All, In Fact Quite The Reverse. They Contain In Some Degree The Ingredients That Give Dreams Their Power... Stuff That's Very Close To Us.

There Is One Timeless Way Of Building. It Is A Thousand Years Old, And The Same Today As It Has Ever Been. The Great Traditional Buildings Of The Past, The Villages And Tents And Temples In Which Man Feels At Home, Have Always Been Made By People Who Were Very Close To The Center Of This Way.

To Work Our Way Towards A Shared Language Once Again, We Must First Learn How To Discover Patterns Which Are Deep, And Capable Of Generating Life.

The More Living Patterns There Are In A Place - A Room, A Building, Or A Town - The More It Comes To Life As An Entirety, The More It Glows, The More It Has That Self-maintaining Fire Which Is The Quality Without A Name.