In the final analysis, all architecture reveals the application of human ingenuity to the satisfaction of human needs. And among these needs are not only shelter, warmth and accommodation, but also the needs, felt at every moment in every part of the world in endlessly different ways, for something more profound, evocative and universal, for beauty, for permanence, for immortality.

-Nuttgens, Patrick
  'The Nature of  Architecture', in Ben Farmer and Hentie Louw (eds) Companion to Contemporary  Architectural Thought (1993).