In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.
Could we design an all-glass building with internal channels and networks for airflow and water circulation? Can we surpass the great modern tradition of discrete formal and functional partitions and generate an all-in-one building skin?
Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.
I like to mostly wear very simple clothes.
When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear.
The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace.
In traditional 3D printing, the gantry size poses an obvious limitation for the designer who wishes to print in larger scales and achieve structural and material complexity.
I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'
For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.
I approach the world as a whole by taking an integrative approach, not a world of parts, and I like to bring different fields and disciplines together. The same is true with my preoccupation with cultural expression.
All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.
Unlike a pressed or blown-glass part, which traditionally has smooth internal surface features, a printed part can have complex surface features on the inside as well as the outside.
How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?
