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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.

But In Practice Master Plans Fail - Because They Create Totalitarian Order, Not Organic Order. They Are Too Rigid; They Cannot Easily Adapt To The Natural And Unpredictable Changes That Inevitably Arise In The Life Of A Community.

The More Living Patterns There Are In A Place - A Room, A Building, Or A Town - The More It Comes To Life As An Entirety, The More It Glows, The More It Has That Self-maintaining Fire Which Is The Quality Without A Name.

Once You Understand This Way, You Will Be Able To Make Your Room Alive; You Will Be Able To Design A House Together With Your Family; A Garden For Your Children; Places Where You Can Work; Beautiful Terraces Where You Can Sit And Dream.

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.