Every time we build something, we manipulate the conditions of people’s lives, but most planners don’t know enough about this manipulation...I have worked very hard to find out what the life is that goes on inside our buildings and how our buildings influence that life...Because if you just do form, then you are doing sculpture, but if you look after the interaction between life and form, you are doing architecture. — Metropolis
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Another nice guy. He would make a wonderful architecture professor.
"the Interaction between life and form..." I like that quote...
Why does it have to be just one or the other, form or influencing living, this is the choice we seem to constantly be presented with, substitutes for "wise design, meaningful, interactive design and art or form making". To often designers etc look at what the design is first, and then ask, how does it have meaning, or in other words, how does it stand out. But wise place making can address entirely different sets of values and find a place in the public landscape just as easily. My work has done that, it is not seen in the conventional sense, it is seen in a more fulfilling sense of identity and place. See my project, it's just a different approach: http://peacewalkway.org
Nothing is purely black or white, and there are infinite shades of gray between them. The point is succinctly made by stressing the extremes.
if you look after the interaction between life and form, you are doing architecture
Part of the problem is that where form hits you in the face you can't readily see the interaction with life, which has to be experienced. Form is the easiest to see and by extension the shallowest measure of architecture.
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