Quote: Everything & Withholding Judgement of It

I am refining the design and preparing a presentation of the 34th Street Design that I'll do in Albuquerque in the Fall. I have been rereading this book and ran into this relevant quote.

Denise Scott Brown
"A SIGNIFICANCE FOR A&P PARKING LOTS, OR LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS" (1966):

Learning from the existing landscape is a way of being revolutionary for an architect. Not the obvious way (but) to question how we look at things.
...(to) take a positive, non-chip-on-the-shoulder view. Architects are out of the habit of looking non-judgmentally at the environment.
...There is a perversity in the learning process: We look backward at history and tradition to go forward; we can also look downward to go upward. And withholding judgment may be used as a tool to make later judgment more sensitive. This is a way of learning from everything.