“This, then, is the central paradox: wilderness embodies a dualistic vision in which the human is entirely outside the natural. If we allow ourselves to believe that nature, to be true, must also be wild, then our very presence in nature represents its fall.”
— The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature by William Cronon
“I prefer soft objects to hard, curved lines to straight, ambiguity to clarity, spatial diversity to functionalism, and naturalness to artificiality.”
— Toyo Ito
““As its form blurs, architecture will exist where, like a cloud, the boundary between inside and outside grows ambiguous.””