"The success of the masterpieces seems to lie not so much in their freedom from faults - indeed we tolerate the grossest errors in them all - but in the immense persuasivness of a mind which has completely mastered its perspective."
The Eden Project is a multiple greenhouse complex and a must see destination in the United Kingdom.Thecomplex is dominated by two enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house plant species from aroundthe world. Each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The domes consist of hundreds of hexagonal andpentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The first dome emulates a tropicalenvironment, and the second a Mediterranean environment.
"I think Wright learned the most important aspect of architecture, the treatment of space, from Japanesearchitecture. When I visited Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, I found that same sensibility of space. Butthere was the additional sounds of nature that appealed to me." - Tadao Ando
Frank Lloyd Wright's "most beautiful job" - Fallingwater is a house built over a waterfall. What is soimpressive about the project is that it streches out over 30 waterfalls.
I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and possibilities which are inherently its own. Architecture is not a vehicle or a symbol for things that do not belong to its essence.
"...clients. It is such a strange word, isnt it? In a shop you are a customer, on a train you are a passenger, in a hospital you are a patient, in a class you are a student, in the economy at large youd be a consumer. But client? The only people who have clients are lawyers, architects and prostitutes, all of whom have to live with the reputation that they are simply out to screw you. Only the prostitute is honest about it..."
