Philip Johnson (1979)
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuit... next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter.
no new society without new kinds of building
A building for people, people other than oneself, who can rejoice together over the creation.
whole civilization are remembered by their building... The art of architecture is the only human activity that can produce that miracle. (Teotihuacan in Mexico)
We eschew old- fashioned words like God, soul, aesthetic, glory, monumentality, beauty. We like practical words like cost- effective, businesslike, profitable.
arc longa vita brevis
Values can change.
We can, if we but will; architecture, as in all the world's history, could be the art that saves.
In this century alone, we have Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Lutvens Mies van der Rohe, and our young architects may be better than them.
the art of architecture, the art we used to call the mother of the arts
via http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/1979/bio.html
History always tell something I- we forgot. It's worthy to sometimes open and visit the ideas that time compiled and saved - for us- to sit, understand and be move.
Reading and searching about him stroke me (one's again). In his time, he saw how the majority neglect the meaning of an honest creation- work- service. It's because man always go on what is feasible in their minds. It's all set...
At present, see- it's difficult to put into words, to find simple phrases just to explain what is architecture, the work of an architect or even why I'm or you practice it... only for them to accept and understand.
But like what PJ believed, everything can be save!
Just TRUST US^^
And like P-Noy said, kayo ang boss ko- namin.
We want to make sure that everyone is safe, comfortable and happy. And behind all our works, it is you that is on our minds- hearts- who keep us moving... drawing.
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