Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
The future of architecture is culture.
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 a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
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.
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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.