“Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”
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It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.