Architecture

There is this zone … which is sometimes part of the staircase and sometimes part of the house, and they open this door and there is going to be a very large openness between the opposite houses and consequently a lot of social contact. And I must say, and also I know, that the influence of architecture on life is very limited, that it helps the social contact ….

We should not make architecture, that forces people to communicate. So we should make enough protection from the one to another, to not force the people to communicate, but we should also not force people to not communicate and that is the thing. To get your own choice to make conditions, to organize your building in such a way that this choice to the people is either to do this or to do that, to be by myself or to be with the others according to what my situation is.

Transcript: Lecture of December 9, 1987; source: AA school of Architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwXeiBiHf4c