Architecture is like aikido:
You use the energy that is already there and transform it as you wish.
From a fruitful collaboration between client and architect, a project develops that opens itself to the needs of the people who use it.
The task is to recognise the ‘genius loci’.
Bringing about the new in order to carry history forward calls for sensitive, sustainable action with an eye to the future.
Merely holding on to the old, or repeating it, would destroy history.
By tradition, we are committed to progress
“The time to be happy is NOW… the place to be happy is HERE”