Asia Is Still Dominated By Skyscrapers. I

Nobody Should Be Anything, But Because I Once Had A Different Profession And I'm Interested In Writing, I Took It Upon Me.

Architecture Is A Rare Collective Profession: It's Always Exercised By Groups. There Is An Essential Modesty, Which Is A Complete Contradiction To The Notion Of A Star.

The Thing Is That I Have A Really Intense, Almost Compulsive Need To Record. But It Doesn't End There, Because What I Record Is Somehow Transformed Into A Creative Thing. There Is A Continuity. Recording Is The Beginning Of A Conceptual Production. I Am Somehow Collapsing The Two - Recording And Producing - Into A Single Event.

Any Architectural Project We Do Takes At Least Four Or Five Years, So Increasingly There Is A Discrepancy Between The Acceleration Of Culture And The Continuing Slowness Of Architecture.

Beauty Isn't What I'm Primarily Interested In [in Architecture]. I Think Appropriateness Is More Important.