Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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 think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.