“ The key to solving an architectural problem is to know the problem well. You have studied all the aspects.You know the basic needs. And then you wake up in the morning and start to work. All the time, you have to keep this intuition in your mind, allowing it to penetrate into the pragmatics. It’s very key that the intuition can penetrate to the pragmatics and that they work together.Then you have a creative solution. If you try to do it with intuition alone, it becomes just a mess.If you just try to do it with the pragmatics alone, just the facts, that doesn’t lead anywhere either.That is, unfortunately, how a lot of buildings are done and why they are so raw and nasty.They don’t have any energy, or passion, or any inspiration in them. But it’s hard to get the developers to agree to allow inspiration to happen.They just want to get it done fast and easy.
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Steven Holl (In July 2001 Time Magazine named Steven Holl as America’s Best Architect)
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