Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.