J.U.X.T.A.P.O.S.E.D.

Jean Nouvel wins 2008 Pritzker Prize. In an article discussed his winning, he said:

It’s impossible to create a timeless building. I cannot imagine doing that. I like it when a building clearly has a date, the moment of its construction. If you do a building now and then gain three centuries later, it’s not the same building. Knowledge evolves, techniques also.

A city is like a museum, and what’s interesting is you can find the thinking and feelings of generation, the preoccupation of an epoch, within the parade of architecture.”

And let me add:

So there comes juxtaposition,  when stones moulded and changed to steel. Glasses had getting along, engineered to be curtain walls. But then there’s geometry, creating contrast in shapes. Then there are souls, different from the old era, craddle with coming period and its evolving forces. And when all of that created without compromising its title as utilitarian art, then it have to be embraced, welcomed as we step further towards future.

The Spiral by Daniel Libeskind