“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”
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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.