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  • No space, architecturally, is a space unless it has natural light

  • The bridge, a place of transition, a symbol of the union between past and present

  • The significance of architecture is found in the distance between it and function

  • The window shall not lose his sight focused

  • The intention is not to close but wrap

  • The stone speaks of its distant geological origins, its durability and inert permanence

  • The man of the initiative, action, thought, the leader, requires a shelter for his meditations in a quiet and safe place

  • The wall being built in the hope that at a particular time, the light grant him a moment almost unrepeatable

  • What is real is not the exterior form but the idea, the essence of things

  • It is not until very low levels of light that our pupil dilate. When it does dilate, we actually begin to feel light, almost like touch

  • The vacuum with which you put order or is purified,with which you enclosing without cluttering

  • What slice of sun does your building have?

  • Simplicity of shape does not necessarily equate with simplicity of experience

  • The contrast of textures, rough and smooth, call upon both visual and tactile senses

  • Full of air space

  • The forms that put in value the shadows are more evident and become at the same time intangibles

  • The emotional appeal that is based on the shadowed dimness of indirect lighting, in which form is only vaguely revealed

  • Is it then a place of ritual purification, the equivalent of a holy-water stoop?

  • The architectural work is in stone

  • To reach a multiple perceptual sense, multi-sensory through the materials, the light, the textures

  • Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters

  • The glass encourages the experience of illusion and dreams

  • The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal

  • Form precedes design

  • Can architecture be heard?

  • Manipulation of space, material, and light and shadow to create a memorable encounter through an impact on the human senses

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