“Architecture has no purpose. Speaking in terms of a pre-calculated material utilization, it is purposeless… The origin of architecture is sacred. The human need to build manifested itself at first in the erection of structures with a sacred purpose, with a magical significance, of a sacred sexual nature.”

— Hans Hollein, 1962.

I came across this quote in one of my classes this semester, and I suppose it’s appropriate for the student, but the idea was just left there, without any further commentary, like many of the quotes in the text.  Usually it’s standard architectural thoughts, but this struck me as particularly progressive.  Sure, artists in the past have seen their works as a completion of body, soul, mind, but architecture has a more than aesthetic purpose to it

Discuss.