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(PREMISE) WHY DO I WORK IN ARCHITECTURE?
Because Architecture is...
... organization. (Le Corbusier)
... sublimation of the necessities of life: it is the art that defines, in space, time. (Ernesto N. Rogers)
... the way in which man has tried to inhabit the earth, to find protection from the elements, but above all to make his existence evident. (Paolo Portoghesi)
... the physical expression of a way of being. (John Pawson)
... the great book of humanity. (Victor Hugo)
WHY RESEARCH AND PASSION?
Because Design is not achieving beauty: beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. (Louis Kahn)