Once You Understand This Way, You Will

There Is A Myth, Sometimes Widespread, That A Person Need Only Do Inner Work...that A Man Is Entirely Responsible For His Own Problems; And That To Cure Himself, He Need Only Change Himself....the Fact Is, A Person Is So Formed By His Surroundings, That His State Of Harmony Depends Entirely On His Harmony With His Surroundings.

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.

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.

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.

In My Life As An Architect, I Found That The Single Thing Which Inhibits Young Professionals, New Students Most Severely, Is Their Acceptance Of Standards That Are Too Low.