System
Bin Wang

After reading the four paragraph I’ve been impressed by an idea that architecture is a system; the society is a system; the universe is a system. Everything is a system while every system is belonged to a larger system. Therefore it gave me a new perspective about architecture and architects.
Some times we regard ourselves, architects, are principle of the world. We are the designer of people’s life. Actually , we are only tiny components of the world. What’s the difference between architecture and rocket? The answer may be “no difference”. They are both components of this world, which is a system. Even in the system of architecture, we architects are only part of it. Our job is just to make the system running normally and developing well. We really have little ability to influence the whole system.
In Spaceship Earth it mentions “If we don’t really know how big “big” is, we may not start big enough, and are thus likely to leave unknown”. So is it a big problem if we don’t know big enough? As a point of my view, we could always deal with what we know, thus we don’t need to worry about something out of the system. For example, right now we have no idea about the space outside the universe so architects are just designing buildings on the earth and are doing a pretty good job. However, if one day we know the outerspace enough , I believe we could deal with it as a bigger system, because human’s intelligence is unlimited.