Architect
Sort by date
Sort by ratingThe first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.