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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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.
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.
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.