Infrastructure Is Much More Important Than Architecture.

Prada Is Extremely Directed In Terms Of Communicating What They Like And What They Don't Like. That Is Actually Extremely Pleasant Because It Clarifies Very Easily What You Can Do And What You Need To Do.

The Work In S, M, L, Xl Was Almost Suicidal. It Required So Much Effort That Our Office Almost Went Bankrupt.

I Studied In London In 1968. Our School Had A Separate Department Of Tropical Architecture. Of Course It Was Totally Unfashionable, Partly Because Nobody Wanted To Think About Colonialism, But Basically What You Learned There Was That, Ok, The Sun Is Here, So You Should Create Natural Ventilation Here - An Unbelievable Amount Of Really Sound Principles That Have Been Completely Abandoned, So Now Everything Is Air Conditioned With Big Machines.

I'd Say That My Profession Ends Where Architectural Thinking Ends - Architectural Thinking In Terms Of Thinking About Programs And Organizational Structure. These Abstractions Play A Role In Many Other Disciplines, And Those Disciplines Are Now Defining Their 'architectures' As Well.

But Now Sustainability Is Such A Political Category That It's Getting More And More Difficult To Think About It In A Serious Way. Sustainability Has Become An Ornament.