overheard in the nook of a million nerves.

‘Are you arrogant enough to think that you have the power to actually make the building’s user walk in the exact same route you want her to? Or are you just plain fascists to even want to control the way a person perceives a space. Whatever happened to free will and independent thought? Or am I talking about outdated notions here?!?!?!?’ Then stop telling me how you think the user would feel when he walks into the space you’ve designed. There is no software by which you can determine that, no calculations. I’ve seen the happiest people in a shack and the most miserable people in some of the best buildings in the world. I’ve seen a beautiful nursery becoming a meth lab, and I’ve heard the best performance of Di Sarli in a stinky alley. Space is mute, space is silent, spaces don’t communicate, spaces are neutral. BUT. They can help people communicate. If any of your designs ever get realised, and looking at this bunch, I hope not, and if you ever see two people having a dialogue, not incidentially, but intentionally, then call yourself an architect. Don’t sit here, tell me that a three second walk down the corridor is going to change a person’s life forever.’

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