Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
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.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.