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openly to all the stimuli outside the self.

The virtue of the city, Flaubert wrote, is that a man learns to watch himself at play; the idea is to close to Simmel's description of the modern city as a milieu in which the individual has the possibility of watching himself behave.

New York Review of Books Nov. 1. 73 p30-31 - by Richard Sennett

Simplification, in the true sense, is the analysis of a program with a constructive and creative concern for an almost forgotten quality: logic.

-- the building as billboard and architecture as communication with messages to be received in the moving car at sixty miles an hour--

...the all-inclusive scene, with its no-holds-barred inconsistencies, its quota of the excellent and the atrocious given equal nonjudgmental weight, as they truthfully exist. The reality of the environment..." is

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in its totality or implications of totality. It must embody the difficult unity of inclusion rather than the easy unity of exclusion.

Style- the product - is a reality with or without polemical explanations. It is automatically and inevitably the result of all the confluent factors of a culture and a particular moment. It cannot be created artificially or imitated successfully. That is why the forger's hand is almost always revealed, through slips of style beyond his control.

"I like elements which are hybrid, rather than "pure," compromising rather than "clean," distorted rather than "Straightforward," ambiguous rather than "articulated," perverse as well as impersonal, boring as well as "interesting" conventional rather than "designed," accommodating rather excluding, redundant rather than simple, vestigial as well as innovating, inconsistent and equivocal