Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
We absolutely loved it in Winnipeg. The people were wonderful, the architecture is wonderful,
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.
The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.
Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.