Louis Kahn, one of the greatest American architects of the 20th century, used to talk to bricks. When he’d ask a brick what it wanted to be, he’d say the brick would inevitably answer, “an arch.” And surely enough, Kahn created some phenomenally beautiful brick arches in his various projects across the world. If Kahn were alive today and were to ask an office building what it wanted to be, the words he would be least likely to hear would be “an apartment building.”
Yes, exceptions exist…
