Architects have the obligation of understanding spaces and how people live in these!
Building are not object dropped into the landscape or a city. Any designed object is part of a big picture: the environment we are living in, i.e. natural environment, built environment, social relations....
It is not about beauty, aesthetic, utility....
architecture is about the organism we are living in
Not every stroke of brush is a piece of art on a canvas, the collectivity of strokes, the composition of them is the Art Work.
Not all the buildings are going to be inspiring, but the town will be if architects will work towards best quality, instead of best money, and if citizens appreciate this rising their expectation.
Art is about ideas, is about experiences
ASK TO ARCHITECTURE THE SAME!
House design to have access to sunlight whilst preserving privacy.
Art and Architecture are visions and they will bring capital to the city in the long term.
The city has gone, you cannot go back!
Architecture is part of the play of life. It represents the stage where all of us can play our part.
Design is part of the process to build. How can you give an abstract value to it? how can you prioritize it? I could understand a quality-led process vs a quick design building, but the design, whether thorough or not, is part of the process.
Design-led is alienating the design from the place where it belongs.
Two souls, two heart.
Past and future in a split present.
A warm past, old, loaded of feeling with which compare the present is a difficult challenge.
An uncertain future, light and still shallow.
How to fill new meanings; elaborate past feelings to fill new shapes.
A big architecture challenge
The Prietzke Prize (one of architecture’s highest honours) awarded to Shigeru Ban is a joy for me not only for the work of Ban, but also because it is the celebration of architecture as a discipline for human beings and the multitude of ways they live in this world. (NY Times report)
