It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.