It Is Not Possible To Make Great

There Is One Timeless Way Of Building. It Is A Thousand Years Old, And The Same Today As It Has Ever Been. The Great Traditional Buildings Of The Past, The Villages And Tents And Temples In Which Man Feels At Home, Have Always Been Made By People Who Were Very Close To The Center Of This Way.

The Specific Patterns, Out Of Which A Building Or A Town Is Made May Be Alive Or Dead. To The Extent They Are Alive, They Let Our Inner Forces Loose, And, Set Us Free; But When They Are Dead They Keep Us Locked In Inner Conflict.

The Difference Between The Novice And The Master Is Simply That The Novice Has Not Learnt, Yet, How To Do Things In Such A Way That He Can Afford To Make Small Mistakes. The Master Knows That The Sequence Of His Actions Will Always Allow Him To Cover His Mistakes A Little Further Down The Line. It Is This Simple But Essential Knowledge Which Gives The Work Of A Master Carpenter Its Wonderful, Smooth, Relaxed, And Almost Unconcerned Simplicity.

Drawings Help People To Work Out Intricate Relationships Between Parts.

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.