Chapter One Architectural Value

‘A designer has his own standards. He is a professional, a craftsman, and if he is good himself, he knows when he has done a good job. It must be all of a piece, have wholeness, clarity, it must not be too strong at one point and not too weak at another, but, as I said, it is useless to try to defi ne quality. All we can say is that its emergence results from the involvement of the designer, from his passion for perfection, from the fever which grips him when he sees the chance of producing a really good job, and which makes him sustain the effort involved’. (Arup, 1972)