Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
Architecture is invention.
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.