2 Making

In the period when I first learned architecture, architects often had this attitude: “Draw the building. Let someone else worry about how to build it.” There was a tendency for 20th-century architects to treat the actual making of a building as a great unmentionable which had to be left to others, not understood through their own hands.
But of course that doesn’t make sense. It is only when you treat the raw material of the building as the stuff being shaped, and take control of it — either with your own hands, or at least only asking other people to do with their hands what you yourself know how to do with your hands — that you can make a real thing, something which has worth.

In the making of the building you must be involved yourself — and you must view the art of building as an act of making in order to get the right results.

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