I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
Architecture aims at Eternity.
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.