In My Life As An Architect, I

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.

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.

It Is Possible To Make Buildings By Stringing Together Patterns, In A Rather Loose Way. A Building Made Like This, Is An Assembly Of Patterns. It Is Not Dense. It Is Not Profound. But It Is Also Possible To Put Patterns Together In Such A Way That Many Patterns Overlap In The Same Physical Space: The Building Is Very Dense; It Has Many Meanings Captured In A Small Space; And Through This Density, It Becomes Profound.

I Mean, Making Simulations Of What You're Going To Build Is Tremendously Useful If You Can Get Feedback From Them That Will Tell You Where You've Gone Wrong And What You Can Do About It.

We Are Searching For Some Kind Of Harmony Between Two Intangibles: A Form Which We Have Not Yet Designed And A Context Which We Cannot Properly Describe.