Scientific Naturalism Is A Story That Reduces

In My Own Work, I'd Say I'm A Classicist, But I Look Everywhere For My Solutions. I Don't Study The Toilet-living Habits Of My Clients, Although That's A Popular Approach. First, I Think Of Every Building In History That Has Been Similar In Purpose. Then I Think Of The Functional Program - That's A Major Part Of The Study.

I Hate The Celebrity Architect Thing. I Just Do My Work. The Press Comes Up With This Stuff And It Sticks. I Hate The Word Starchitect. Stuff Like That Comes From Mean-spirited, Untalented Journalists. It's Demeaning.

I Like To Be Buttoned Onto Tradition. The Thing Is To Improve It, Twist It And Mold It; To Make Something New Of It; Not To Deny It. The Riches Of History Can Be Plucked At Any Point.

Processionalism Is Primary - How You Get From One Place To Another, The Relationships And Effects Of Spaces As You Move About In Them. That's Worked Out Awfully Well In The State Theater. I'm A 'straight-in' Man Myself; I'm Too Nervous, I Like To Know Where I Am. I Also Like To Know Where I'm Going.

I Call Myself A Traditionalist, Although I Have Fought Against Tradition All My Life.