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Which of your works do you consider the most impor-
tant and why?
One of the most important is La Casa de Retiro Espiritual, aka,
the "House in Cordoba." Contrary to everybody's expectations
and hopes, it was built and stands quite proud and handsome (see
page 28).
Another important project for me is the one in Fukuoka.
This building is, for me, very strong evidence that the prevailing
notion "the cities are for the buildings and the outskirts are for
the parks" is a mistaken and narrow-minded idea only favorable
to commercial architects. The Fukuoka building demonstrates,
once and for all, that you can have a building and the garden.
By Emilio Ambasz
Confessions of a Green
"Starchitect"
Green Roofs
Above: Fukuoka building design. Image by Emilio Ambasz. Below: Fukuoka building. Photo by Hiromi Watanabe.
Award-winning green architect
Emilio Ambasz asks himself
the questions nobody else
has dared to
