The World Motivation
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
“I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.”
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally.
Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.