Drawings Help People To Work Out Intricate

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.

High Buildings Have No Genuine Advantages, Except In Speculative Gains For Banks And Land Owners. They Are Not Cheaper, They Do Not Help Create Open Space, They Destroy The Townscape, They Destroy Social Life, They Promote Crime, They Make Life Difficult For Children, They Are Expensive To Maintain, They Wreck The Open Spaces Near Them, And They Damage Light And Air And View.

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.

It Is Not Possible To Make Great Buildings, Or Great Towns, Beautiful Places, Places Where You Feel Yourself, Places Where You Feel Alive, Except By Following This Way. And, As You Will See, This Way Will Lead Anyone Who Looks For It To Buildings Which Are Themselves As Ancient In Their Form, As The Trees And Hills, And As Our Faces Are.