Monday, October 23, 2006

So, I do lots of reading about urban planning. At the end of the great period of civic design, and at the eve of the Industrial Revolution, the Abbe Laugier wrote:

"Il faut de la regularite et de la bizarrerie, des rapports et des oppositions, des accidens qui varient le tableau, d'un grand ordre dans les details, de la confusion, du fracas, du tumulte dans l'ensemble."

There is need for the regular and for the bizzarre, for relations and for oppositions, for accidents which give variety to the picture, for a great order in the details, for confusion, for turmoil, for tumult in the whole.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Trouves- tu de la vérité dans ces mots, Brian?
Do you adhere to these words, Brian? Do they apply to Seattle?

Agnès