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Responsibility

before form

Architecture is responsibility – because it endures.

Buildings last for generations – materially, atmospherically, and socially. Durability, usefulness, and beauty are not criteria of style, but criteria of consequences that must be assumed. In spatial theory, we distinguish between place and space:
Place describes the built structure of geometry, construction, and material – it is measurable. Space describes how it feels, the atmosphere – it can only be experienced.

Judgment makes decisions arguable and comprehensible. Design begins with embodied experience: Perceive → Name → Decide → Shape. Without judgment, design remains arbitrary. With judgment, it becomes accountable.

Responsibility means:
being able to justify decisions for place and space – because architecture endures.