The World Motivation
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.
“Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.”
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.
When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.
India - I've always felt at home there. Delhi and Mumbai and the Taj Mahal are all incredible - but it's the people I love. Indians are so interesting and accommodating and friendly. The best hotel I've stayed at there is the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur: its architecture is unbelievable.
Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Architecture is politics.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.