With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.
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.
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
I am involved in the architecture of space.
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?