There Is A Myth, Sometimes Widespread, That

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.

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.

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.

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