The Buildings That I Build Very Often

To Seek The Timeless Way We Must First Know The Quality Without A Name. There Is A Central Quality Which Is The Root Criterion Of Life And Spirit In A Man, A Town, A Building, Or A Wilderness. This Quality Is Objective And Precise, But It Cannot Be Named.

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.

There Are Geologists Who Can Pick Up A Rock And Say, 'yes, There's Oil Under There.' A Geologist Who Has Been Studying Those Kinds Of Rocks For 10 Or 20 Years Is Able To Make That Pronouncement.

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.

In An Organic Environment, Every Place Is Unique, And The Different Places Also Cooperate, With No Parts Left Over, To Create A Global Whole - A Whole Which Can Be Identified By Everyone Who Is Part Of It.