As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.