Architecture and integrity

You’ve been insisting on it for years, integrity in building design, maybe I am beginning to understand.


It’s not a difficult concept.


It’s just the use of the word “integrity” that that made it hard.


What do you think it means?


I think you could use other words. Like honest, necessary, functional, practical, minimalist even.


So now you could like a house like this one?


It has a beauty, hmm, maybe it would be OK for camping.


Only short-term? Well, how about something like this?


Looks grand, has atmosphere. Probably quite liveable, gives shelter, protects the occupants.


Those columns don’t hold up the structure, you know. They are just decoration for its own sake.


Gratuitous?


All these big words. Why don’t people understand just from looking at a building what is good and what is not?


Architecture still needs explaining. Architects need wordsmiths
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