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Anybody Can Build A Building, Putting Some Doors Into It, But How Many Times Have You Been In A Building That Moves You To Tears The Way Beethoven's 'eighth' Does?

Faith? Haven't Any. I'm Not A Nihilist Or A Relativist. I Don't Believe In Anything But Change. I'm A Heraclitean - You Can't Step In The Same River Twice.

Processionalism Is Primary - How You Get From One Place To Another, The Relationships And Effects Of Spaces As You Move About In Them. That's Worked Out Awfully Well In The State Theater. I'm A 'straight-in' Man Myself; I'm Too Nervous, I Like To Know Where I Am. I Also Like To Know Where I'm Going.

In Our Greatest Universities, Naturalism - The Doctrine That Nature Is All There Is - Is The Virtually Unquestioned Assumption That Underlies Not Only Natural Science But Intellectual Work Of All Kinds.

Maybe, Just Maybe, We Shall At Last Come To Care For The Most Important, Most Challenging, Surely The Most Satisfying Of All Architectural Creations: Building Cities For People To Live In.