In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Architecture is invention.
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.