Richard Neutra on Paper Architects
This is from the recording Conversations Regarding the Future of Architecture. It’s Richard Neutra talking about his influences:
Adolf Loos … never was a great architect in the sense of plan preparation. As a matter of fact, he prided himself not to draw plans. He was thinking that to work on paper, and to use a 4H pencil as [Otto] Wagner would do, was just denaturing the task of an architect. As a matter of fact, he slowly brought me around to the idea that architecture was not a paper affair, but it had something to do with human life and that it was danger to use scales, it was danger to use pencils, it was a danger to become a paper architect.