Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
The future of architecture is culture.
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
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.
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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.
Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.