It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.
The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.