Experiencing architecture

There are monumental and very simple buildings that play on only one effect, like the hard and heavy. But most buildings are a combination of hard and soft, of light and heavy, of loose and tight, and of many different kinds of surfaces. All this are elements of architecture, something the architect can play with. And it is necessary to be able to sense these things if one wants to experience architecture.

Steen Eiler Rasmussen

[translated from Danish by me]