Design (is) a circumstantial thing… A sense of realization of the problem and then inserted design as its natural extension. I believe that a man must realize something before he has the stimulation within himself to design something… There are many in our professions that rely entirely upon the actual design and very little on the way of thought as to what a thing wants to be, before they try to develop the design – the solution of the problem.
Realization is thought and feeling together. Because feeling itself is completely unable to act, and thought is also unable to act, but thought and feeling combined a kind of realization. (This realization is) a sense of order, a sense of nature of sense. It is for the architect to derive from the very nature of things (from is realizations) what a thing wants to be. – Louis I. Kahn, Talk at Otterlo Congress, 1959
