Quoting Christopher Alexander, Lecture at the Institute of Architecture in London, 1995

And it does take time, and you don’t do a good job unless you take time.

[…time is] more difficult, oddly, than meeting the budget. […] I think people are almost programmed nowadays to assume that along with the McDonald’s hamburger, the [work] is to be delivered by December the 11th. I suppose deep down I don’t really believe that this is right.

[…] It actually is morally repugnant to me. You know in the Middle Ages a lot of the English cathedrals had scaffolding on them all the time, and in fact I’ve heard that it was considered an affront to God to have all the scaffolding off, because it was inconceivable that such a thing could be “finished”.

— Christopher Alexander, Lecture at the Institute of Architecture in London, 1995

2:46pm on November 24, 2024 from Vancouver, Canada.


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