LE GARDEN 1st
- Architects PLAENC
- Location BANPO
- Project year 2006
- Build Design & Build
My ambition is clear and it's been very reassuring to find that architects are willing to join that idea even if they're a bit stumped at the beginning to know what to do about it, but there is a willingness to think about that. Of course when I say it's not about architects I need architects to talk about architecture, so it is about them as well. I'm not trying to suppress them but you know in a way 'the play's the thing' as it were, in Shakespeare.
I want great actors but it's the story which I want to come out, but i do need good actors to do that with. You know the repertoire of actors, the cast, is impressive, and they are all generationally spread from people like Rafael Moneo, Norman Foster, Luigi Snozzi, you know a generation of architects who are now in their seventies down to kids as i would call them. you know 30 to 40. So i think that's, you know, the idea of finding different connectivities, i mean that's very important, and also to remind everybody how these layers are important.
I want great actors but it's the story which I want to come out, but i do need good actors to do that with. You know the repertoire of actors, the cast, is impressive, and they are all generationally spread from people like Rafael Moneo, Norman Foster, Luigi Snozzi, you know a generation of architects who are now in their seventies down to kids as i would call them. you know 30 to 40. So i think that's, you know, the idea of finding different connectivities, i mean that's very important, and also to remind everybody how these layers are important.
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can property touch us.
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people. choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people. choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.
