To what do you relate the fine aspects of your problems?

I really look for the nature of something. When I am doing the school, I would try to solve it by "school", rather than "a school". First, there is the aspect of why "school" is different from something else. I never read a program literally. This is a circumstantial thing. How much money you have, and where it is tobe, and it is tobe, and the number of things you need have nothing to do with the nature, and then you are confronted the program. Look at the nature of it, and you see in the program that you want... a library, for instance. The thing that is done is the rewriting of the program. Now this must be accompanied by something which interprects it. Your program alone would not mean anything, because you are dealing with spaces. So you would send back your sketches which encompass your thought about what the nature it is. Invariably, more spaces are required because every program written by an non-architect is board to be a copy of some other school or some other building. 

It's like writing to Picasso and sayin, "I want my portrait painted...I want two eyes in it... and one nose...and only one mouth, please." You can't do that, because you are talking about the artist. He is not this way. The nature of painting is such that you can make the skies black in the daytime. You can make a red dress blue, You can make doorways smaller than people. As the painter, you have the preprogative. If you want a photograph, ou get a photographer. If you want an architect, you deal with spaces...spaces which are inspired...and so you need to reconsider the requirements for the nature of the environment which inspires the activity of that insitution of man. You see in a shool or an office building, or church, or a factory, or a hospital an institution of man.

Louis Kahn