My young colleague told me that in Spanish, his mother tongue, the words wood, mother and material were similar: "madera", "madre”, "materia. " We
started talking about the sensuous qualities and cultural significance of the elemental materials of wood and stone, and about how we could express these in our buildings.

The Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi who saw the beauty of a work of art, in his case the beauty of literature, in his vagueness, openness, and indeterminacy, because this leaves the form open for many different meanings.