When You Make Something, Cleaning It Out

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.

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.

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.

When You Make Something, Cleaning It Out Of Structural Debris Is One Of The Most Vital Things You Do.

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.