architecture

It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

Great artists need great clients.

Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhereis felt everywhere.

Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

Let us summarize these three points more concisely:(a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair.(b) __bjective_ work, undertaken with the silent hope that the end product will nevertheless eventually be regarded as a work of art.(c) Consciously goal-directed work in architecture, which will have a concise artistic effect on the basis of well-preparated objective-scientific criteria.Such an architecture will actively raise the general standard of living. This represents the dialectic of our development process, which purports to arrive at the affirmative by negation _ a process similar to melting down old iron and forging it into new steel.

You are my other self

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us

Living in new shapes, reshapes our thinking

SEE what you think.

We shouldn__ abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create__e it product, communication or system__s a result of the process of making inspiration real. I believe in doing what works as circumstances change: quirky or unusual solutions are often good ones. Nature bends and so should we as appropriate. Nature is always right outside our door as a reference and touch point. We should use it far more than we do.