In this uniformity, I see a tendency among architects to respect and maintain the status quo, and a consensus about what architecture is and can do for our society. That’s the expression of a decorative understanding of architecture, even if it expresses itself in a subtle, modernist language. (Jacques Herzog) — Places Journal
On Places, Jacques Herzog discusses the recent work of Herzog & de Meuron and the challenges of maintaining a creatively vital practice, in an interview with Hubertus Adam and J. Christoph Burkle.
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I wonder about the consistent focus on the issue of patterns. That is to some extent a link to the firms work but also I wonder if it is the result of a particular agenda/interest on the half of the interviewer(s).
For instance: "There are many architects who aren’t really aware of their own patterns, just like most people don’t know their patterns in private"..."Every architect and, indeed, everybody has a hunchback, a pattern"..."Why is it so hard to realize urban patterns in Switzerland?