I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
“I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.”
The World Motivation
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
“I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.”
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
I actually did use to sell shoes.
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.
Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.