The Elements of Expression

There are three elements that is considered as sacred in every creative architectural development:

1. a client with an instict for quality;
2. a master who knows how to awaken the creative possibilities of newer generation; and
3. the existence of a rising generation

Looking back at the KLCC twin towers reminds me of a statement made by the first "master" who started this school of thoughts, Peter Behrens, way back in the early 1900s:

Materials such as glass and iron possessed within them a secret strength of expression that could be brought out as soon as an artist understood how to develop their means and possibilities.

Unlike Le Corbusier's expression of forms, the new expression, that is glass and iron, were no longer enclosed by huge and solid walls. This is skin and bones construction, as Mies van der Rohe once put it.

So, the application of this concept for the twin towers, in a sense, is perfect. It makes the building stands out in the croud. Because its the only steel and glass building in the area surrounded by concrete and stone ones.