Joshua Prince-Ramus : Behind the design of Seattle's library

Joshua Prince-Ramus at TED2006
Behind the design of Seattle's library  (transcript)
Summary
Somehow, l couldn't read the article honestly.
Probably, I thought that it's difficult to present projects, especially for expensive buildings.

Huge money is needed, there are favored interests and opposed options there, it's easy to say something after a building was built, no one knows what would happen in the future, and people’s actions or culture might be changed dramatically also.

The speaker explains his three projects: the Seattle Central Library, the Dallas Theater, and the Time Warner Building.
His mottos are a hyper-rational process, there is no authorship, and the high modernist notion of flexibility.
In fact, the conclusion came from rationality, people couldn't expect, though. 1)
His idea is not creating a sketch by the traditional master architect and carrying out by his minions but editing with teams. 2)

And then I don't understand the high modernist notion of flexibility because the speaker tells us that it challenges and it doesn't really work.
Simply, this strategy is how a high modern building that the speaker really wants to build builds first but not asking a building you want.
It's because dwarves appear.  This is a joke. 
The speaker wanted to build a high modern building that no one built ever and everyone has never seen. The ways are operational casts are starting to dwarf capital casts and possibilities also. And then when some problems happen, it shows that those can solve flexibly.  3)
Normally, you have to say that this building can be solved all problems that everyone can think, though, you wouldn't be able to build a unique building that you really want to build.
The strategy must be what is behind the design of Seattle's library.

P.S. I found the reason that l couldn't read the article honestly.
It's that the speaker told us many times in the talk that it was very difficult to convince the librarians and he didn't know the future of the library and books. It must be true what is behind the design of Seattle's library. 1)
The idea that the library in your city has to be famous is great, though, Japanese libraries are poor because cities don't have budgets but citizens don't think about the significance of libraries in their cities and publishers start saying that the reason that books aren't sold well is that there are libraries additionally. What a crazy thing it is! 2)

Words in this story
flexibility /noun/ the quality of bending easily without breaking.
dwarf /noun/ dwarves, small person
dwarf /verb/ cause to seem small or insignificant in comparison.
comprehensive /adj/ complete, including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
transcendence /noun/ existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level. excellence, supremacy