Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves and the world.

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.

开放的社会、对知识的无限制获取、人们为促进知识而进行的无计划和不受抑制的联合——这些可能使一个庞大、复杂、不断增长、不断变化、日益专业化和技术化的世界仍然成为一个人类社区的世界。