Mies refers to a need to "create order out of thedesperate confusion of our time." But Kahn has said "by order I do not mean orderliness." Should we not resist bemoaning confusion? Should we not look for meaning in the complexities and contradictions of our times and acknowledge the limitations of systems? These, I think, are the two justifications for breaking order: the recognition of variety and confusion inside and outside, in program and environment, indeed, at all levels of experience; and the
ultimate limitation of all orders com~osed bv man. When – I circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.