Photo courtesy of Paul Rudolph. I think it probably comes as close to getting to the art of architecture as any single thing. You can't say that a building which expresses everything is better than one that doesn't express. I said a long, long, time ago that the reason why Mies made great architecture is he left so much of it out. He was very careful about what he wanted to show.
Nobody can say that buildings are better or worse because of their articulation of the parts.
Nobody can say that a building which shows all of its mechanical system is better than a building that doesn't show any of it. The art of architecture deals with why you have certain prejudices about certain things, which I've tried to say nobody knows. The other aspect has to do with what you choose to show and not show. Funding for this oral history was provided by the Department of Architecture, The Art Institute of Chicago. May 2000 .