Autor: Metropole Architects

“Only after speculating the worlds of both the actual and the fictional together can architecture come into existence as an expression, and rise into the realm of art.

In architecture, there is a part that is the result of logical reasoning and a part that is created through the senses. There is always a point where they clash. I don’t think architecture can be created without that collision”
– Tadao Ando

As Ando so eloquently suggests, architecture is not exclusively engineering or art, but the synthesis of both the actual and the fictional, acting in concert with one another.

“Architecture is a usable art. It is sculpture – but sculpture usable by human beings – with doors and windows, openings for light and air. And these openings do not diminish the qualities of the sculpture – on the contrary, they complete it. In short: architecture is sculpture with the gestures of human occupation.”