“To a lot of people, architecture is an intangible. It’s not something they understand. They can understand the work that an engineer does, so a building doesn’t fall down on them. They can understand the work a contractor does because they drive the nails or they apply the paint. But architecture is the art of the building, and that gets to be much more difficult for people to understand.”
Read More“I want to move people, create a space where people would feel lifted
spiritually, and make it worthwhile for someone to visit that space.”
Read MoreI was 29 years old and had just returned from a Fulbright Fellowship studying
Korean residential architecture when a friend introduced me to my very first
client, Oscar. He wanted to open a small bar in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. We
had a blast creating a “Cuban Lounge” on a limited budget. We even got published
in a few small media outlets.
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