Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
