BEGINING

"A first attempt by anyone, at anything, is always thought through as a balance of the most prosaic as well as more abstract (that is, openly ambitious) kind. it is always undertaken by someone operating in the here and now, but with on eye simply directed towards the future, for the simple reason that at this unique stage of a career (then and only then) there's simply no looking back"...

That this division between matters practical and theoretical has taken root in architecture despide the apparent glimpsing of this threat by so many of the bright lights included here, makes today's nearly institutionalised division of practical and theoretical labour in architecture a situation more poignant (i would souggest) than it is ironic...

Steele, Brett, and Gonzalez De Canales, Francisco. First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s & 1970s. London: Architectural Association, 2009. Print