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Architecture
is that which points beyond what is built, it is the spiritual part of building that becomes visible. It can only be created if the client recognises the added value that is created by good architecture. He must maintain this commitment to added value until the completion of the house and beyond. And the architect must be prepared to create this added value through work beyond meeting the standards and functional requirements.
The fact that this is a great challenge in view of the costs and complexity of construction, which not everyone can withstand, can be seen in our built environment.Durability, usefulness and beauty - these primal virtues of architecture have not lost any of their relevance, even if they were formulated thousands of years ago. For us, each one is inconceivable without the other. Today and in the future, architecture must be measured against them.
Obviously, they are no longer the self-evident basis for what is published as architecture. The diversity of architectural languages has led to Babylonian confusion. The price for the freedom of our discipline is the dissolution of the architectural concept of quality. Architecture must free itself from confusion if it wants to assert its autonomy and not degenerate into an art that only the author understands. Our work is shaped by this view. They refer to a common architectural language, which we have in common because it draws on the architectural fund. The play with formal habits, the anthropomorphic in architecture, the work with the genius loci, the subtle difference between existing and complementary: not the radical, but the gradual transformation and repair of the urban city.
