Roy McMakin
“When I started designing furniture, my explicit aim was to create pieces where time is ambiguous, so when people saw a piece they would be confused as to what point in time it was made…”
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen
“Nature is fundamental to our work. To us it’s always about the position of architecture in relation to the reality of the world, and to life. So in that sense architecture can perhaps be understood as an organizing device…”
Jürgen Mayer H
“My personal little theory is that we’re all constantly reworking our childhoods. For me, creativity has a lot to do with recovering lost innocence…”
Rafael de Cárdenas
“Architecture with a Capital A, the way we’ve inherited it from Modernism, is a very macho practice and it has completely divorced itself from interior design and decoration.”
David Adjaye
“I like this idea of different practices in different places. This discombobulated network of sites offers me an opportunity to have different cultures operating that I move into.
Daniel Arsham
“Here in Miami so many projects are being built right now and sometimes you’ll see a building that’s under construction and next to it one that’s being demolished…”
Sophie Hicks
“I was only 26 years old when I started studying architecture, but at that point I’d already done nine years in fashion…
Shigeru Ban
“I’m fascinated with any material and with finding out the potential beauty of it. I’m not developing anything new, just using existing structure differently.
Pierre Hardy
“I remember when I was young my grandmother lived by the Knoll shop on Boulevard St-Germain. I remember being completely obsessed with it because it seemed like a dream planet where everything was so perfect, so sleek, so beautiful, and brand new. Paris in the 1970s and 80s was full of old things; in contrast…
David Chipperfield
“The Architecture Biennale is a strange animal because it tries to be like the Art Biennale, but architects don’t have artifacts in the same way — well, we have artifacts, but they are not necessarily exhibits to put on the wall.