Architecture
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But
architecture
is that complete ecstasy that the future can be better.
And yet it is in times like this that I think
architecture
can thrive with big ideas, ideas that are not small.
And yet that energy and power of
architecture
has driven an entire social and political space that these buildings occupy.
It's been missing in much of the architecture, because we think
architecture
is the realm of the neutered, the realm of the kind of a state that has no opinion, that has no value.
And I think that is what
architecture
is, it's radical.
So again I am a believer in the radical
architecture.
You know the Soviet
architecture
of that building is the conservation.
And I think our
architecture
is a confrontation with our own senses.
There is a lot of appreciation for the kind of cool
architecture.
But
architecture
is not the language of words.
So again, the notion that a building should just be explicit I think is a false notion, which has reduced
architecture
into banality.
I think that's part of what the complexity of
architecture
is.
And I think we shouldn't shy away in architecture, You know, brain surgery, atomic theory, genetics, economics are complex complex fields.
There is no reason that
architecture
should shy away and present this illusory world of the simple.
So I do believe that
architecture
as I see it needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.
Of course that means that
architecture
is political.
The political is not an enemy of
architecture.
And I've always believed that the act of architecture, even a private house, when somebody else will see it, is a political act, because it will be visible to others.
So again, the evasion of that sphere, which has been so endemic to that sort of pure architecture, the autonomous
architecture
that is just an abstract object has never appealed to me.
Because
architecture
is also the asking of questions.
And
architecture
is so closely intertwined with it because we are born somewhere and we die somewhere.
So the reality of
architecture
is visceral.
So not the habitual
architecture
that instills in us the false sort of stability, but an
architecture
that is full of tension, an
architecture
that goes beyond itself to reach a human soul and a human heart, and that breaks out of the shackles of habits.
And of course habits are enforced by
architecture.
When we see the same kind of
architecture
we become immured in that world of those angles, of those lights, of those materials.
A space that doesn't always follow us like a dog that has been trained to follow us, but moves ahead into directions of demonstrating other possibilities, other experiences, that have never been part of the vocabulary of
architecture.
So
architecture
maybe is not so big, like science, but through its focal point it can leverage in an Archimedian way what we think the world is really about.
And it's not only our memory, but those who remember us, which means that
architecture
is not mute.
So again, I think the notion that the best
architecture
is silent has never appealed to me.
I think
architecture
should be risky.
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