... između tradicionalnoga i novoga kao ni između reda i avanture
nema pravoga sukoba, a ono što danas nazivamo tradicijom pletivo
je stoljeća avanture
Jorge Luis Borges

Arhitektura i gradnja gradova nužno proizlaze iz želje za gra|enjem.
One obuhvaćaju fizičke i moralne mijene u izgrađenim okruženjima ljudskih društava te nude
ostvarenje projektnih vizija. Glavni
je cilj arhitekture dosljedno osmišljavati dobre građevine i
dobre gradove s gledišta njihova ostvarenja.
U svojoj je biti, međutim, arhitektonska praksa i prije i sada slijedila ideale. Kompromitirati ideale primjerenosti, ljepote, čvrstoće, stalnosti itd. u ostvarenju građevine znači napustiti sferu arhitekture. Poznato nam je koliko je bezobzirna praksa prošlih desetljeća osramotila struku arhitekata i gradograditelja. Ona
je dovela do značajne moralne i kulturne krize i uzrokovala ozbiljan gubitak autoriteta i
vjerodostojnosti struke.
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...That between the traditional and the new, or between order and adventure, there is no real opposition, and that what we
call tradition today is a knitwork of centuries of adventure.
Jorge Luis Borges

Architecture and city-building
are necessarily embedded in a desire of building; they encompass physical and moral changes in the built environment of human societies and propose the materialisation of design visions. Architecture’s main purpose is to conceive in a consistent way good buildings and good cities in a perspective of their built realisation.
The practice of architecture remains, however, essentially a pursuit of ideals.
Compromising the ideals of appropriateness, beauty, solidity, permanence, etc.,
within the materialisation of building, means abandoning the very realm of architecture.
We know how much ruthless practice has, in a few decades, brought shame on the
profession of architects and
city-builders. This has led to a substantial moral and cultural crisis and has precipitated a serious loss of professional authority and credibility!
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