The East-West issue has always seemed to be one of the most important ones. For a long time I was a delivery driver – first I was a legal courier and then I delivered pizzas – so I’ve been all over, and I learned all the streets of this city a deeper, more granular level than most people, and I began to notice something.
Read MoreThe problem with railing against nostalgia as a cultural phenomenon is that when you experience it yourself, you feel like a phony.
Read MoreFor us, this is the end result of an unconsidered aesthetic: a building is not a sculpture. It is something that actual people have to use, and if it makes them feel anxious or depressed to be there, then it's a failure as an artistic project. It makes it so that they can't function, because a building envelopes the people within it – it becomes the totality of their environment. If it's bad, then they don't have a choice but to feel bad because we don't get to choose jobs based on the architecture.
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