A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. |
And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time. |
Architecture is inhabited sculpture |
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. |
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. |
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. |
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. |
Each material has its specific characteristics in which we must understand it if we want to use it. In other words, no design id possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood. |
God is in the details. |
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. |
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. |
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. |
It is better to be good than to be original. |
Less is more. |
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel. |