A final comment on architecture

Yet if the observations of this chapter are held to be true about the production of living structure, and if, as I have suggested, living structure always arises slowly, by successive transformations of what exists, gradually, gradually, and then decisively changes slowly until a new thing is born, then the view of the unfettered architect-creator that has been fostered in the last four hundred years, must be completely wrong.
It is not the way that profound living structure can be created in buildings, it never was, and it never could be. Our idea of what it means to design a building, and to create a profound building form, must be changed for ever by this knowledge.

#book/The Nature of Order/2 The process of creating life/1 The principle of unfolding wholeness in nature#