All our work should be in response to the human being, the scale of the individual person, on the street, within the city fabric. The building is less important than the environment in which it is placed. The spaces between buildings are more magical than the buildings themselves. Each building has a role in building community, and the architect should respond to that role honestly, not embellishing it into something that it is not. A building is a part of its fabric, it is a member of the family, within the fabric of the city. There is a hierarchy that should be respected. The city comes first, the street is second, and buildings come third.
By recognizing the power of place, we can use it to our own advantage, and create a design that is special to its place, drawing from it and adding to it.