A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.
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.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
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 don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.