Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.
If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.
If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.
Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.
Architecture is invention.
Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.