Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.
Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.