We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.