EX_2 WEEK 1: 6 concepts and 12 Axonometric

Narrative is essential to his design process, by exploring the meaning of 'African American'.

He faced the challenge of designing for a city that was racing to modernise.

In the 70's, I was interested in massive strong forms. Now I am more interested in the contract between those forms that give permanence and solidity, and something that gives them lightness and novelty.

His ideas are about light, airy spaces that were infused with a sense of vibrancy and were designed to draw the community in.

The No 1 goal of architecture is to create useful objects. We create useful objects for the city to experience them - but also so that those objects move us.

Public buildings provide spaces that foster links and memory to people, and explore how neighbourhoods evolve.