Chapter 1 of 24
Richard Horden, 1986
I find myself talking particularly about two areas of architecture at the moment. One is the aspect of materials and the way we as architects are part of a family of all the builders in the world from the small ring that one might make, or the person who makes a ring, to the largest structure on earth - in a way we're part of that spectrum as designers and architects, we're builders. And that for me is essential, that we understand that we're part of that group, and perhaps a middle range of that group, we're not building the biggest structures in the world and we're not building the smallest. The other aspect is the architect as a person who controls space, and for me that's the second most critical thing. And if there are any two things that one has to distil together, it's those two. It's firstly the materials and secondly the space that one's creating with those materials.