Common sense: an overview of the process

You might say that this is all just common sense. I believe you would be right. But this common sense flies in the face of many processes which 20th-century architecture and construction practice set in place.
When we try to make a building in such a way that it gets its life, what we have done here is the most natural way to do it: We get one thing right at a time. We do what we know. We get things right as we come to understand them. That gets good results.

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