Most Of The Wonderful Places In The

Most Of The Wonderful Places In The World Were Not Made By Architects But By The People.

The Structure Of Life I Have Described In Buildings - The Structure Which I Believe To Be Objective - Is Deeply And Inextricably Connected With The Human Person, And With The Innermost Nature Of Human Feeling.

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.

We Must Face The Fact That We Are On The Brink Of Times When Man May Be Able To Magnify His Intellectual And Inventive Capability, Just As In The Nineteenth Century He Used Machines To Magnify His Physical Capacity. Again, As Then, Our Innocence Is Lost. And Again, Of Course, The Innocence, Once Lost, Cannot Be Regained. The Loss Demands Attention, Not Denial.

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.