When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.