meus proprius

1. Follow your path, it leads to other things.
2. It’s okay to be a late bloomer, you do not have to rush yourself.
3. The first part of your life should be action and the second part should be reflection.
4. You have to believe and not be a fundamentalist, architecture is not only an answer, it’s a question.
5. Do not believe the old wives tale that you can guess what people think, because you never know.
6. If you build a building, you can change a city, you have to have a thick skin to move a project on.
7. The quality of the way people feel is not only about architecture, but tradition.
8. There is a connection between everything, nothing is ever just arbitrary.
9. You have to have a strong purpose in life, you can’t be swayed by cheap thrills.
10. There are so many cynics in the world who think that things will never happen. This is not good. You should compromise. It is good to enter into different fields, you can find something out about yourself.

For those in search of Utopia / Truth / Existence / The One.. It exist in your own work where its principle motivation comes from this primordial force called : Joy.

The reality of a room was to be found in the space enclosed by the roof and walls, not by the roof and walls themselves.

JOY
I felt first of all joyous.
I felt that which Joy is made of, and realized that Joy itself must have been the impelling force, that which was there before we were there, and that somehow Joy was in every ingredient of our making. When the world was an ooze without any shape or direction, there must have been this force of Joy that prevailed everywhere and that was reaching out to express. And somehow the word Joy became the most unmeasurable word. It was the essence of creativity, the force of creativity. I realized that if I were a painter about to paint a great catastrophe, I could not put the first stroke on canvas without thinking of Joy in doing it.
You cannot make a building unless you are joyously engaged.

That which has not been built is not really lost. Once its value is established, its demand for presence is undeniable. It is merely waiting for the right circumstances.

I think that the most inspirational point from which we might try to understand architecture, is to regard the room, the simple room, as the beginning of architecture.