“Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.”
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An important work of architecture will create polemics.
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.