Zwischen Bild und Wirklichkeit

Architecture is not about form, it is about many other things (…) The light and the use, and the structure, and the shadow, the smell and so on. I think form is the easiest to control, it can be done at the end.

Ray has a very good sense of what gives an idea or form its character, of how its relationships are formed. She can see where there is a wrong mix of ideas or materials, when the division between two ideas isn’t clear. If this sounds like a structural or architectural idea — it is. But it has come to Ray through her painting.

Rooms are frames of mind and apartment ads become today's poetry, which is my favourite reading.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

Intuition is a very powerful thing — more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.

Aber alle diese Feinheiten, bestimmt, die Dauer des Bauwerks zu sichern, waren eine Kleinigkeit im Verhältnis zu denen, die er gebrauchte, wenn es sich darum handelte, die Erregungen und Schwingungen vorzubereiten, die in der Seele des künftigen Betrachters seines Werkes entstehen sollten.