If you write your signature and I write my signature
they look different
So, my aesthetic is mine and yours is yours
So that I can't help it
The great works of architecture express feeling
When you visit and see them there's a transfer of feeling
from the artist, the architect
over time through the ages to now
It's hard to come to Paris and build a building for art
and you're competing with so many great institutions so
I don't know, it's very exciting
Most people don't think of architecture as an art
and it gets blurred because architecture, as well as being an art
is an act of social conscience
because you're making buildings
for all kinds of people, that give them shelter,
make them feel loved and accepted
I think that component of architecture sometimes
doesn't go the extra notch to become the art of architecture
After modernism, the return to historicism
was very disturbing to me, they called postmodernism
And I don't know why I said this in a lecture, I said
"The Greek temples that you're emulating are anthropomorphic
Why don't you go back 300 million years
before man to fish for your inspiration?
If you got to go back, let's really go back"
And I don't know why I said it, it was intuitive, something
But then I started thinking about it and I started drawing the fish
and then I realized fish shapes express movement
It was a rich language, so
I started to explore that idiom, that idea
It was like Pandora's box,
I was into a new paradigm, a new playground
So that's how I got to this freedom of expression
Making art is an act of love and making love to the world
I study art a lot, lot ,lot, lot
Most of my life, my friends are artists
A few architects, but mostly artists
How do you create feeling with a building?
I don't know, it's something I've explored for many years
I love sailing, and this is kind of a regatta I think
Most buildings are very static
but I like the idea of the movement, of the sense of movement, that it has
There's a transfer of this feeling through the bricks and mortar and steel
that's kind of amazing
It makes me want to do more