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The Long Path From Material Through Function To Creative Work Has Only One Goal: To Create Order Out Of The Desperate Confusion Of Our Time.

Means Must Be Subsidiary To Ends And To Our Desire For Dignity And Value.

Architecture Starts When You Carefully Put Two Bricks Together. There It Begins.

Where Can We Find Greater Structural Clarity Than In The Wooden Buildings Of The Old. Where Else Can We Find Such Unity Of Material, Construction And Form? Here The Wisdom Of Whole Generations Is Stored. What Feelings For Material And What Power Of Expression There Is In These Buildings! What Warmth And Beauty They Have! They Seem To Be Echoes Of Old Songs.

Let Us Guide Our Students Over The Road Of Discipline From Materials, Through Function, To Creative Work. Let Us Lead Them Into The Healthy World Of Primitive Building Methods, Where There Was Meaning In Every Stroke Of An Axe, Expression In Every Bite Of Chisel.