You Have To Let The Viewers Come

I Started Studying What The Nature Of A Monument Is And What A Monument Should Be. And For The World War Iii Memorial I Designed A Futile, Almost Terrifying Passage That Ends Nowhere.

I Though About What Death Is, What A Loss Is. A Sharp Pain That Lessens With Time, But Can Never Quite Heal Over. A Scar. The Idea Occurred To Me There On The Site. Take A Knife And Cut Open The Earth, And With Time The Grass Would Heal It. As If You Cut Open The Rock And Polished It.

You Have To Have Conviction And Completely Question Everything And Anything You Do. No Matter How Much You Study, No Matter How Much You Know, The Side Of Your Brain That Has The Smarts Won't Necessarily Help You In Making Art.

I Do Not Think You Can Find A Reason For Everything You Make.

Architecture Is Like A Mythical Fantastic. It Has To Be Experienced. It Can't Be Described. We Can Draw It Up And We Can Make Models Of It, But It Can Only Be Experienced As A Complete Whole.