“The development of the project, to a certain extent, means a kind of liberation from the constraint of the program, without ever betraying or abandoning it, but attaining another plan in which the goal, in essence, is Beauty…
(…) No architect starts with the idea that he is going to write a poem.
(…) There are many situations where you really need to row against the tide. And sometimes, the tide wins…”
Álvaro Siza, ArchiNews ed#38