There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
There's backlash about everything I do.
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
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