- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
- Certainty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
- Concert Hall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
- Collapsing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.
- Air
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- Nov 07, 2020
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020