The Savannah River originates in the area of Rabun Gap in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in northern Georgia, and flows eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. Where the river opens out to the sea, the Tybee Island Lighthouse stands. A few miles inland, the city of Savannah, Georgia rests on the shore of this river.

Part One of this book, Beginning of the New, analyzes the original settlement of this city. Part. Two, Composition with the Old, is a proposal for a square in that urban scheme.

From Rabun Cap to Tybee Light is a colloquialism, once used in this part of Georgia, meaning 'all-inclusive'.

This phrase is used here not only to indicate the physical location of this city, but the usage represents my search for a complete architecture- gathering a breadth and depth of understanding in order to build a house or a city. That search is not presented in this volume. What is presented are two vehicles for this search; the analysis and the proposal.

In this search. I am somewhere between complete nescience and categorical mastery. I do not know where I stand but this book stands there with me.