Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
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.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
The future of architecture is culture.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.