hjesper

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract; that which they call abstract is the most realist, because what is real is not the exterior form but the idea, the essence of things.

A fundemantal mistake that the [high modernist] urban planners made, Jane Jacobs claims, was to infer functional order from the duplication and regimentation of buildling forms: that is, from a purely visual order. Most complex systems, on the contrary, do not display a surface regularity; their order must be sought at a deeper level. "To see complex systems of functional order as order, and not as chaos, takes understanding. The leaves dropping from the trees in the autumn, the interior of an airplane engine, the entrails of a rabbit, the city desk of a newspaper, all appear to be chaos without comprehension. Once they are seen as systems of order, they actually look different."