to the place they describe and not as supplementary coloring.Statements of this kind help me to come to terms with the dissatisfaction I often experience when l contemplate recent architecture.l frequently come across buildings that have been designed with a good deal of effort and a will to find a special form, and l find l am put off by themThe architect responsible for the building is not present, but he talks to me unceasingly from every detail, he keeps on saying the same thing, and l quickly lose interest. Good architecture should receive the human visitor, should enable him to experience it and live in it, but it should not constantly talk at him.
Why,l often wonder, is the obvious but difficult solution so rarely tried? Why do we have so little confidence in the basic things architecture is made from: material, structure, construction, bearing and being borne,