Tetragrammaton

Architecture is the art and science of creating the framework for the life that we want to live.

And I think a beautiful way to understand design and architecture is the Danish word, the

original Danish word for design is form giovanni, which literally means form giving.

Because to design something is to give form to that which has not yet been given form.

In other words, to give form to the future, because when you are designing a space or a building

or an object, you're giving form to the world, like at least a corner of the world,

that you would like to find yourself living in in the future.

And I think once you start thinking about that,

then design is liberated from the association with, you know,

style, fashion, and it becomes much more about the fundamentals of what kind of a life is it we want to live and how do we accommodate it? How do we give it form? How do we create the framework around it?

Interesting in your definition, it doesn't really include the building part of it.

It's more the imagination of what it could be.

Yeah, but of course, like at the end of the day, architecture is a discipline incredibly

sort of bounded by the parameters of reality, including gravity and, you know, regulation and budget, just to name a few.

So in that sense, of course, to get from fiction to fact, to turn your vision into reality,

you have to have an understanding and even an appreciation

and a love for the parameters that end up constituting your problems as well as your

possibilities. So you can say like the fabric of reality are the ingredients that you have to work with.

But it's important that ultimately the tectonics of building the building is really the tool with which you end up creating the world that you want to live in.

Like there was a moment, for instance, like in the 16th and 70s where architecture

devolved into what was called in Denmark, crane track modernism.

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