[Introduction]

Author(s): Jean Nouvel, Günter Behnisch, Adéle Naude Santos, Aldo Rossi, W. G. Clark, Denise
Scott Brown, Robert Venturi
Source: Perspecta, Vol. 28, Architects. Process. Inspiration. (1997), p. 51
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 inspirationand making

"I LOVE to be critical, instigative, accusatory." 60

"I REACT to conditions outside myself." 64

"I IMAGINE moving through things; I imagine journeys." 87

"I TAKE the good wherever I find it." n1

"I RESPECT things that have sprung from this land; forms subjected to our

early sense of economy, inventiveness and questioning." 114

"I THINK the recent past is the hardest thing to understand." 127

"I EXPLORE social insight in an architectural way." 133

We are all excitable, sensitive, fragile creatures, inspired and encouraged, or frightened,
by the myriad forces of the world around us. What do we fancy? How do we respond-
what do we "make" of this world? The following seven essays of selected architects pre-
sent a wide, if not intentionally wild, array of very personal perceptions, sources of
inspiration and ways of making, or constructing, a world beyond oneself.

The presentation of each essay brings together the voice of an architect, in one or more
texts, and their images of inspiration in a highly integrated, if not investigative, fashion.
If buildings are the final form of an architect's ideas, then the images selected to accom-
pany each text are clips of the ever-evolving scaffolding which surrounds an architect's
work. The particularcontext or adjacency of text and image in each essay is established
to alternately isolate, integrate, or reveal significant verbal and visual moments of each
contributor's inspiration.

ContributingArchitects:

Jean Nouvel, Gunter Behnisch, Adele Naude Santos, Aldo Rossi, W.G.Clark,Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi