ABSTRACT
Our aim is to design things as simply as possible, so that they have content and durability. Formal modesty and material unity is based on this assumption, because we believe that purposefulness is a categorical imperative. We wish to design a building simply, naturally and sensibly, to create space and enclosure that is as permanent as possible with low maintenance for the variety of human existence. We try to avoid expressionistic shapes, derived only from artistic whimsy without any consideration of nature, construction and wear through use, by questioning our own work and adopting a critical distance from topical architectural motives.
