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" A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. "
People
Think
Important
" An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "
Budget
Product
Place
" And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time. "
Time
Meetings
People
" Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. "
Architecture
World
Vacation
" Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "
Service
Architecture
Art
" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "
Place
Architecture
Time
" A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. "
Way
Furniture
Fish
" Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao. "
People
Got
Only
" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "
More
Places
Chicago
" Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want. "
Thinking
Chaos
Democracy
" Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff. "
Over
Insecurity
Healthy
" For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it. "
Start
Work
Me
" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "
Green
Tool
Sometimes
" I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. "
Start
Working
Insecurity
" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "
Work
Decide
Someone
" I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. "
Overcome
How
Know
" I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. "
Things
Furniture
Hands
" I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. "
World
Think
Build
" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
Dull
Dry
Want
" If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. "
Going
Where
I Can
" I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. "
Thought
Motor
Linear
" I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for. "
Go
You
Understand
" I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. "
Things
Always
Doing
" I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. "
Building
Green
Never
" I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. "
Down
Lot
People
" I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "
Paid
Work
Lot
" I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form. "
Think
You
Past
" I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. "
Great
Architecture
Live
" It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. "
New
Architecture
Art
" I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much. "
Now
Loud
Book
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