Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.
Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
Architecture aims at Eternity.
Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
The future of architecture is culture.
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.