“Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.”
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The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
