"Every good work must be ruined"

I like this:

Finnish architect Marco Casagrande writes in 1.1 Architects Build Small Spaces (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, August 2010)

"First I design and then I ruin my own design. Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature. Every good work must be ruined.

When the ruin happens, control gives up so that nature can step in. This point is where the stories begin. Accident is greater than human control. Accident is nature. Architecture is a living thing."

Is this partly what Robert Smithson means when he refers to buildings and places "rising up into ruins"?

www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions