Sustainability Has Become An Ornament.

I Wanted To Disconnect From Contemporary Architecture

The Grid Makes The History Of Architecture And All Previous Lessons Of Urbanism Irrelevant. It Forces Manhattan's Builders To Develop A New System Of Formal Values, To Invent Strategies For The Distinction Of One Block From Another. The Grid's Two-dimensional Discipline Also Creates Undreamt-of Freedom For Three-dimensional Anarchy. The Grid Defines A New Balance Between Control And De-control In Which The City Can Be At The Same Time Ordered And Fluid, A Metropolis Of Rigid Chaos.

The Luxury Of Our Position Now Is That We Can Almost Assemble Any Team To Address Any Issue.

Each Building Has To Be Beautiful, But Cheap And Fast, But It Lasts Forever. That Is Already An Incredible Battery Of Seemingly Contradictory Demands. So Yes, I'm Definitely Perhaps Contradictory Person, But I Operate In Very Contradictory Times.

In This Branch Of Utopian Real Estate, Architecture Is No Longer The Art Of Designing Buildings So Much As The Brutal Skyward Extrusion Of Whatever Site The Developer Has Managed To Assemble.