As always, our only option is to understand the possibilities of the technologies available to us. It is our task to develop, with our technology, an architecture as rich, meaningful, and loved as was the architecture of stone. Unfortunately, without a direct connection to the underlying technology, all these efforts remain fruitless, Pelli believes. Form-giving needs to continuously test itself against the possibilities of construction or it degenerates. And the forms given, to have life, need to reflect an underlying physical reality.
Architecture can grow only if it is rooted in a living tradition of building construction.