What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.