IN LOVE WITH

CHARLES CORREA
IN LOVE
WITH
ARCHI
TECTURE
W A L K I N G T O W A R D S A R C H I T E C T U R E
T H R O U G H L O V E
“LOVE IS THE MASTER AND GOVERNOR OF THE ARTS… [N]O ONE CAN
EVER DISCOVER OR LEARN ANY ART UNLESS THE PLEASURE OF LEARNING
AND THE DESIRE OF DISCOVERING MOVE HIM… [A]RTISTS IN ALL OF THE
ARTS SEEK AND CARE FOR NOTHING ELSE BUT LOVE.” Marsilio Ficino,
Commentary on Plato´s Symposium on Love
S P A C E D E S I R
E S L O V E
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
LOVE
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
HISTORY
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
ORNAMENTATION
“BUILT UPON LOVE”
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
RENDERS
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
RENDERS
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
TRADITIONAL CRAFT
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
TRADITIONAL CRAFT
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
TRADITIONAL CRAFT
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
TRADITIONAL CRAFT
 AND THIS PRODUCTIVE CO-DEPENDENCE OF DESIGN AND
PLACE, ARCHITECT AND SITE, IS A RELATIONSHIP
THAT DOESN'T REALLY EXIST IN ANY OTHER ART FORM
OTHER THAN ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH

TRADITIONAL CRAFT
 WE ARE PROUD TO BE

ARCHITECTS
Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp is architecture every bit as much as Chartres Cathedral
is. Works of architecture, regardless of their era, ‘belong to Architecture,’ as
Louis Kahn would say, rather than to a particular time or style.
They embody qualities beyond
time saying we ‘belong to
Architecture,’ the real question
becomes ‘What are the qualities
of architecture that endure?’
or, simply, ‘What is
architecture?’
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
SIMPLICITY
 -it is space and
light and material
in an honest,
simple composition
that, by its very
being, stirs up
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
MATERIALS
 ARCHITECTS IN
LOVE WITH
RIGHT PROPORTION
OF COMPLEMENTS
 ‘complements’: dark and light, high and low, orthagonal and nonorthagonal,solid
and void, sturdy and delicate, monumental and intimate. The juxtaposition of
these qualities heightens our understanding of each of them, and thereby makes
our experience of the architecture more rich. We know black more fully when it
stands next to white.
ARCHITECTS IN
LOVE WITH
DETAILS
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
LANGUAGE OF LINES
CHOREOGRAPHY OF THOUGHTS
“OUR STUDENTS WILL NEVER DRAW A BUILDING IN THE
SAME WAY EVER AGAIN, BECAUSE THEY'LL UNDERSTAND
WHAT A LINE ON PAPER MEANS.”
 PERHAPS IT IS HERE THAT THE EXPERIENCE

,
REALLY BEGINS. IN THAT CASE

HOW DO WE ‘END A LINE’?

ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
EXTRAORDINARY
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
LIGHT
You could almost say that light is
the first thing to which architecture
is responsible, because if
architecture praises light and
honors light and seeks light, it will
satisfy our souls as well.
And when light and architecture meet,
light becomes a material the light itself is
material; it is perhaps the greatest of
materials. It constructs form and
composes space, without labor and
without cost.
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
NATURE
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
THEIR SKETCHES
ARCHITECTS IN LOVE WITH
WI-FI
WE LOVE ARCHITECTURE
Every building offers lessons to be
learned – and the best way to absorb them
is to sketch. “When you draw, you really
have to look at it, It's a way to discover
and to remember.”
FRANK HARMON
It’s easy to invent new shapes. Children do it all the time. So do
cartoonists. What’s hard is to give those shapes and forms any
meaning.