On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

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.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

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.