Expressive vs Neutral

"...I have never been a fan of the neutral. I don't like neutrality in life and anything. I think expression and it's like espresso, you know, you take the essence of the coffee. That's what expression is. Its been missing in much of architecture, because we think that architecture is the realm of the neutered. The realm of the kind of a state that has no opinion, no value. And yet i believe that it is the expression of the city, the expression of our own space that gives meaning to architecture. And of course, expressive spaces are not mute. Expressive spaces are not spaces that simply confirm what we already know. Expressive spaces may disturb us and i think that is also part of life. Life is not just an anesthetic to make us smile, but to reach out across the abyss of history. To places we have never been and would have perhaps been were had we not been so lucky...."