Did Churchill get it wrong?
Text and drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt, DrawnJournalism.com
“We shape our buildings, and afterwards they shape us” is a much quoted 1943 statement from Winston Churchill about how the architecture surrounding us can come to define us, but I wonder if it is more the other way around?
Our buildings shape us, thereafter we shape them
We weren’t born into a void, and then began shaping structures there, we were born into all-ready existing structures, that influence and shapes us from day one. Only much later do we start to create structures, buildings, paths and designs ourselves.
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