Sublime

...towns and buildings will not be able to become alive, unless they are made by all the people in society...

“Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.”—Christopher Alexander

Frank almost never started a design with a predetermined shape. He liked to begin by “playing”—a word he used far more often than “working” when he talked about how he went about designing things—with wooden blocks of different sizes, each representing a portion of a building’s functional program. He would then stack or array the blocks in what he