I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.
It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
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