Introduction
It is better to love eternal things than to judge them, for they are very difficult to judge rightly but they can never be wrongly loved... It is better to raise ourselves to higher things through love than to reduce them to our level by judgement.
Letter from Marsilio Ficino to Jacopo Bracciolini
Architecture is not dead, but it is certainly in hiding. In a world preoccupied by the image, our quest to find it must be a labour of love, often painful and distressing.
These works in process, while seeking significance, do not offer a judgement. They are the silent witnesses of an amorous search. They demonstrate how things are directed from goodness to goodness and allow us to rejoice in the present. They question the value of property, the hegemony of technology, and seek no authorial honours. They demonstrate the wondrous capacity of the personal imagination to pursue alternative courses of action and design places for man to dwell, revealing man as patently mortal, yet whole, standing-under eternal things.
Dr Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Montréal, September 1997