Larger and deeper

So, according to my analysis, our scope must be larger; yet at the same time the physical and geometrical refinement must be far more detailed.
We must learn to increase our scope by looking through a telescope and to increase our scope by looking through a microscope, at the same time — as we change our profession.

Feel to me that while architects tend to prefer the telescope, software engineers prefer the microscope.

If living structure is to be created in the world, it is a virtual certainty, I believe, that the presently obsolete 20th-century architect (which we ourselves embody) has to be replaced by a new and different kind of professional, undertaking different tasks, paying a larger role, increasing the scope of what is covered — yet at the same time also playing, at least half the time, a smaller and more modest role, a more engaged role, more embracing in her/his artistic responsibility as a maker.

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