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For Many Years, I Hated Nature. As A Student, I Refused To Put A Plant Anywhere - A Living Plant, That Is. Dead Plants Were Ok.

There Are Some Very Similar Moments In The Early Work Where The Focus Was On Drawing, Abstraction And Fragmentation. Then It Moved To The Development Of Ideas. Lately It Has Become What Architecture Should Be, Which Is More Fluid Organization. There Has Not Been So Much 'a Change' But 'a Development'.

Malevitch Discovered Abstraction As An Experimental Principle That Can Propel Creative Work To Previously Unheard Levels Of Invention; This Abstract Work Allowed Much Greater Levels Of Creativity.

The Commission Process In America And England Is Different. In America, They Do It Through An Interview Process, And It's Really Based On Whether They Like You Or Not. I Mean, It's Nothing To Do With Whether You Do The Best Scheme Or The Worst Scheme.

I Made A Decision When I Was In School That I'd Have A Lot Of Male Friends.