I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring.
I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.
At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.
One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.