The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
I am always searching for more light and space.
The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.
For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a step beyond painting and sculpture because it is more than using materials. Architecture responds to functional outputs and environmental factors. Yet, fundamentally, it is important for me to stress the art in architecture to bring harmony.
There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.
As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.
The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.
Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.
You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.
Technology is an important element in progress. See, we can always do something better. We can improve water technology, or energy efficiency. There is always progress forward using technology and that's where innovation starts.
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.
Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.
These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help make you good professionals.
