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" Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly. "
Food
Construction
Details
" Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we feel perfectly happy when we walk away. It doesn't feel like quite enough. "
Happy
Enough
Own
" Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. "
Architecture
Still
Standing
" Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. "
Am
I Am
Architecture
" Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology. "
Politics
Technology
Architecture
" As a kid, I imagined being an artist. "
Artist
Being
Imagined
" As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it. "
Student
Architecture
Been
" Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses. "
Rain
Nothing
Architecture
" Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good. "
Good
New
Someone
" Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration. "
Always
Joyful
Inspiration
" I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time. "
Believe
Building
Planning
" I cannot read on a Kindle. I love the physical experience of holding a book, cracking it open, and the process of making the right half weigh less than the left half. I only read hardcover books because I like the resistance and the presence on a bookshelf. "
Book
Right
Process
" I can't imagine having a spouse who is not an architect. It's hard to put myself in the shoes of other couples where each partner brings totally different things from their day to the table. "
Hard
Myself
Shoes
" I can't live without my 15-inch MacBook Pro. I drag it everywhere I go. I love having a big screen with me at all times, especially in transit. "
Me
Live
Go
" I don't really know what 'starchitect' means. I take it as a pejorative because it means that you're sought-after. "
You
Means
Really
" I hate digital calendars, so I use pen and paper or the palm of my hand for my daily schedule. I get much more satisfaction out of physically crossing things out than deleting. "
Hate
Pen
Satisfaction
" I have a real survivor's instinct. "
Survivor
Real
Instinct
" In a progressively privatised city, the defence of public space, the production of new public space, and saving what is public really for the public is very important. "
City
New
Production
" In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. "
Art
School
Architecture
" I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense. "
Never
Thought
Going
" In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable. "
Exercise
Me
Uncomfortable
" In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption. "
Known
New
City
" I think idiosyncrasy is great. "
Great
I Think
Think
" I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse. "
Build
Rebel
Thought
" Many tools are indispensable for my work, from a utility knife to parametric-modeling software, like Digital Project. But it's important not to confuse the tool for the content, as some designers under 30 do. "
Work
Content
Important
" My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice. "
Work
Space
Architecture
" My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents. "
Family
Grandparents
Father
" Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities. "
Architecture
Work
People
" The public brings our buildings to life, and we try to choreograph a lot of things, but our most successful work functions in unanticipated ways. Like the Blur Building. When little kids got in there, they cried or laughed or ran around. And no matter how much theory we put on top of it, it didn't matter: it worked. "
Blur
Successful
Work
" We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at protecting our private property and private space. But we're less attuned to the nuances of the public. "
Space
Become
Know
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