This quote by Stephen Taylor in dialogue with Ryue Nishizava (SANAA) and interviewer Giovanna Borasi pinpoints the potential for a new more sustainable urban architecture:
At this moment when everyone is addressing the question of sustainability in terms of insulation and solar panels, the idea of making a habitable life in the core ore the centre of a city is very much part of the answer. To make it a kind of a human pleasure to return home to a place of tranquillity and privacy on one level, but connected to the community on another………… this notion of the two homes phenomenon, exists n London too. I think it’s a condition of our age. But it’s the idea that on Friday night you leave town and go somewhere which is pleasurable when in fact, you are joining the rest of the commuters for two hours to go out to the countryside and then on Sunday night you join them and go back. It will be different if the place in town is a place of pleasure; and not only that you also have the benefit of the city.
Some ideas on living in London and Tokyo publicised by Lars Müller and edited by Giovanna Borasi.
