Architecture is a shaped expression of basic human needs. It entails the pure functionality of a house. Yet it is more. Architecture determines the pace of life, rhythmically expressing our existence in all its sensuous richness. It defines and confines space. Tectonics raises architecture to an art form, bearing its intrinsic properties and embodying a balanced interplay between each integral part. The tectonic approach, therefore, is a synthesis between form and function, between entity and identity.

The urban fabric is what defines a town. Its fundamental expression emerges as a result of the multiplicity of its lifeworlds. The meta-structure, as a superordinate pattern, and the intricate interaction between constituent buildings form a greater whole, thus creating the identity of a place.

Architecture as a higher craft has the duty to create new impressions of archetypal requirements. Therefore, the quality of architecture is not measured against abstract innovation, but rather against the satisfaction of intrinsic human needs for shelter and safety as well as the recurrence of one’s natural environment.