It must be lucid, elegant, thought thru, for constraints, context, from the point of inception. When complete, nothing should need to be added or removed for it to function. It must function to satisfy user and creator. And “one false note always breaks the magic spell.” (p. 26)
Sounds like a poem as much as an architecture.
In the designer’s autobiography, Charlotte Perriand: A Life of Creation, (p. 28) she relates what Corbusier said to her in the late 1920s: “Life needs play, just as concrete needs expansion joints and the eye’s pupil closes under the effect of light,” he said. “Every structure must contain an overriding element of play.”
You miss out with a dire intention to do purposefully, perfectly. It’s a precise art, yet designing tightly, you miss the mark as well.