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Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes.
I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown... →
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it.... →
I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.
I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.
Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and... →
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