A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
Every building must have... its own soul.
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.
I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.