The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.