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)

Rome

I can't move.

Sitting on the steps of an old fountain.

I see old buildings, static mass with people moving in between the gaps.

Blood into veins. Dynamism and staticity.

Movement, expression, colors.

Happening of life observed by the history.

Kids dancing, musician playing, people walking fast, others slowly watching around.

The old city is not disturbed by this touch of precarious life.

Spaces that create atmosphere, inspire emotional responses. Architecture is a matter of commitment to research into the many levels of human being perception. In the picture: Thermal Baths by Peter Zumthor

I have to admit my defeat.

I have been trying to figure this out, but now I have to accept that I can't find a reasonable answer except for the following one: we are all marketing slave, our thoughts and actions are based on what we are told by cynical people that are willing to say things they don’t believe in exchange of money.

The 26/10/2012 a Christchurch architect has been quoted saying: "higher building costs (in Christchurch) were putting "quite a squeeze" on design....There isn't much ability to apply a whole extra layer of ornament and decoration over the facade of a building".

I hope he has been misquoted! If architecture is a matter of decoration, I will rather present myself as a Sculptor instead of architect

Decomposition of pure form* should not happen due to fear, but for strong assumption!

When the assumption is unclear, than the design should freely follow the undefined path of the free form, where the concept of definition is yet to be defined.

*form predictable as referred to our education: square, triangle, circle....

Walls are not clothes, they are hard, solid, imposing in their nature.

It is not a straight forward process to make them comfortable. It needs understanding, curve, texture, relation, depth!