You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.
Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes.