Asia Is Still Dominated By Skyscrapers. I

Miami Beach Is A Completely Interesting Hybrid Because It Is, On The One Hand, A Resort And, On The Other Hand, A Real City. This Condition Of City And Water On Two Sides I Think Is Really Amazing. And In The Heart Of That City, It Has Put An Enormous Convention Center, An Enormous Physical Presence.

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.

The Areas Of Consensus Shift Unbelievably Fast; The Bubbles Of Certainty Are Constantly Exploding.

Talk About Beauty And You Get Boring Answers, But Talk About Ugliness And Things Get Interesting.

The Architecture Per Se Isn't At Fault. The More Important Factor, In My View, Is The Political Neglect Of These Areas, Which Have Essentially Been Cut Off From Other Neighborhoods.