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• Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the…
• Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
• It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel…
• We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context…
• To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and…
• To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the…
• When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
• The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes…
• There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been.…
• From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily…
• In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a…
• In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported…

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