“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
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The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
A house is a machine for living in.