My architectural history mentor, David Brownlee, shared a link to this essay by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on slowness and hand-work in architectural practice.

This is a lamentation for lost tools and a quiet manifesto describing our desire for slowness…. In the United States, the practice of architecture has come to rely on the computer. In offices the word efficiency is always mentioned, and in design schools, the capability to create and rotate complex forms in space is lauded. So, with surprising speed, the tools of the hand are becoming extinct.

Read the whole thing, but read it slowly.