Quotes On Architecture, construction, planning

From The Oregon Experiment (1975):

…as a source of organic order, a master plan is both too precise, and not precise enough. The totality is too precise: the details are not precise enough. It fails because each part hinges on a conception of a “totality”, which cannot respond to the inevitable accidents of time and still maintain its order. And it fails because as a result of its rigidity, it cannot afford to guide the details around buildings which really matter; if drawn in detail, the details would be absurdly rigid. (p. 23)

From Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964):

If a form is made the same way several times over, or even simply left unchanged, we can be fairly sure that its inhabitant finds little wrong with it.