Another opinion

“When walking through a wood, you find a rise in the ground, six foot long and three foot wide, heaped up in a rough pyramid shape, then you turn serious, and something inside you says: someone lies buried here. That is architecture.”
- Adolf Loos

“…that makes one thing something invisible is present, or rather that one perceives an absence, evoking someone not living here, or rather someone here, not living. As if there were a house not made to be lived in, nobody’s house, a house for nobody. Architecture, for Loos, begins with a dwelling that lacks an address.” Denis Hollier [Against Architecture, p xxi]