“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”
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Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.