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So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to... →
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to... →
I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.
New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's... →
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction... →
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And... →
I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial... →
In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just... →
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist... →
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
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