You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.
Thom MayneYou might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
Thom MayneSo we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.
Thom Mayne