I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.
You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.
Whenever I start a project, I have a broad range of possibilities.
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
That's point of writing: building what you need, right?
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.