Architecture as creative practice

Architecture is the creative act that most fully imposes itself on the lives of others — people will inhabit what you imagine, and the quality of that imagination will shape their daily experience whether they notice it or not. Unlike other arts, architecture cannot be declined by those who live within its reach; the building is already there. This imposes on the architect an ethical obligation that the poet, the painter, and the novelist can, in certain lights, evade: to design well is a form of care extended across time.