DECLARATION

“Writing about architecture and perception is inevitably haunted by the question: Can we see through the word into the built form? If architecture is to transcend its physical condition, its function as mere shelter, then its meaning, like interior space, must occupy an equivalent space within language. Written language might, then, assume the silent intensities of architecture.”-Steven Holl-“What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life – Integrity. Just as it is in a human being, so integrity is the deepest quality of a building[…]If we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature – the psyche – of our democratic society[…]Stand up for integrity in your building and you stand for integrity not only in life of those who did the building but socially a reciprocal relationship is inevitable” – Frank Lloyd Wright-“To my dismay, I have found that an alarming proportion of publications devoted to architecture have banished from their pages the words beauty, inspiration, magic, spellbound, enchantment, as well as the concepts of serenity, silence, intimacy and amazement. All these have nestled in my soul, and through I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice on my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.”-Luis Barragan