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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.
- Cheap
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing and 'accessibility', a word that usually means dumbing-down.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
- Creative Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project - to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.
- Fashion World
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- Nov 07, 2020