January 21, 2012
Always design a thing by considering it in its
next larger context—a chair in a room,
a room in a house, a house in an environment,
an environment in a city plan.
Eero Saarinen
Architect
Labels: Context
Eero Saarinen
March 29, 2010
You always need to think about how a building will look beside its neighbors. Of course, that doesn’t mean you should merely imitate them. Neither does it mean you should make the other buildings look bad. The ideal is to create something that, through its presence, makes the overall environment look better, and at the same time makes your own building look good by virtue of its relationship with the surrounding buildings.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
SANAA
Source: Successes stack up for Tokyo design duo
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