Ideas

Architecture works with matter, but experience often depends on contrasts created by light.

When the frame is visible, a building can explain how it stands.

The same drawing becomes a different building when site, climate, and culture change.

Space becomes clearer when materials do not conceal their properties.

People understand architecture by walking through it, not by reading a plan.

Courts, atria, and plazas complete a building as much as its solid parts.

People perceive size through relationships to body, neighbors, and city, not through absolute dimensions alone.

Plans do not complete space. Height, slope, and roof transform experience.

Glass and walls are choices about privacy, security, and symbolism as well as technology.

What happens in a building often precedes its form.

Large forms can hold memory and power, while plazas and openness can produce public life.

Ornament may be applied, or it may arise from structure, symbolism, and observation of nature.