"Med tradicionalnim in novim kakor tudi med redom in pustolovščino ni pravega spopada, to, kar pa danes imenujemo tradicija, pa je pletivo stoletja avanture."
Jorge Luis Borges

Arhitektura in gradnja mest nujno izhajata iz želje po gradnji.
Oba zajemata fizične in moralne spremembe v zgrajenih okrožjih človeških skupnosti ter nudita uresničevanje oblikovalskih vizij. Glavni cilj arhitekture je dosledna podaja pomena dobrim zgradbam
in dobrim mestom s stališča
njihove materializacije.
V svojem bistvu pa arhitekturna praksa še naprej ohranja težnjo sledenja idealom. Če pri uresničevanju zgradbe, kompromitiramo ideale ustreznosti, lepote, čvrstosti, stalnosti itd., to pomeni zapustiti samo področje arhitekture. Znano nam je, v
kolikšni meri je brezobzirna praksa preteklih desetletij osramotila
stroko arhitektov in gradbenikov. Pripeljala je do pomembne moralne in kulturne krize ter povzročila občutno izgubo avtoritete in verodostojnosti stroke.
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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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