"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see"
This quote is written / told by Tadao Ando somewhere between September 13, 1941 and today. He/she was a famous Architect from Japan.
The author also have 23 other quotes.
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"