Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
“Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.”
The World Motivation
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
“Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.”
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
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.
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.
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.
I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.