In My Life As An Architect, I

In Short, No Pattern Is An Isolated Entity. Each Pattern Can Exist In The World Only To The Extent That Is Supported By Other Patterns: The Larger Patterns In Which It Is Embedded, The Patterns Of The Same Size That Surround It, And The Smaller Patterns Which Are Embedded In It.

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.

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.

Images In The 20th Century Had A Unique Power Where Image Became Divorced From Reality, And Often More Important Than Reality. Buildings Were Judged More By The Way They Looked In Magazines Than By The Satisfaction People Felt When Using Them.

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.