It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
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I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.