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Buildings don't just reflect our society, they shape our society down to the smallest spaces: the local libraries, the homes where we raise our children, and the walk that they take from the bedroom to the bathroom.
Leaking pipes cause the same reaction in concrete buildings, and within 200 winters, most skyscrapers buckle and tumble down.
In cities built in river deltas like Houston, these buildings eventually wash away completely - filling nearby tributaries with crushed concrete.
And there were all kinds of exciting features: you could come in through the landside buildings, walk through the galleries into playgrounds in the landscape.
And because they were so big and expensive, we needed large, centralized buildings to keep them in, and they became our modern hospitals.
Now, if we want better buildings for dying, then we have to talk about it, but because we find the subject of death uncomfortable, we don't talk about it, and we don't question how we as a society approach death.
All of us know about failing housing markets and the challenges of blight, and I feel like we talk about it with some of our cities more than others, but I think a lot of our U.S. cities and beyond have the challenge of blight, abandoned buildings that people no longer know what to do anything with.
And so I thought, is there a way that I could start to think about these buildings as an extension or an expansion of my artistic practice?
One house turned into a few houses, and we always tried to suggest that not only is creating a beautiful vessel important, but the contents of what happens in those buildings is also very important.
I was actually just wanting to activate these buildings as much as I could with whatever and whoever would join me.
What I realized was that for those of you who are zoning junkies, that some of the things that I was doing in these buildings that had been left behind, they were not the uses by which the buildings were built, and that there are city policies that say, "Hey, a house that is residential needs to stay residential."
What do we do with these abandoned buildings?
We found that that was so exciting for folk, and people were so responsive to the work, that we had to then find bigger buildings.
By the time we found bigger buildings, there was, in part, the resources necessary to think about those things.
And so now that the rumor of my block has spread, and lots of people are starting to visit, we've found that the bank can now be a center for exhibition, archives, music performance, and that there are people who are now interested in being adjacent to those buildings because we brought some heat, that we kind of made a fire.
If I were a traditional developer, I would be talking about buildings alone, and then putting a "For Lease" sign in the window.
And when my father built Green School in Bali, he chose bamboo for all of the buildings on campus, because he saw it as a promise.
The structural connections of our buildings are reinforced by steel joints, but we use a lot of hand-whittled bamboo pins.
I tell radio stories about design, and I report on all kinds of stories: buildings and toothbrushes, mascots and wayfinding and fonts.
MR: So I conceptualize the possibility that just like we keep cars and planes and buildings going forever with an unlimited supply of building parts and machine parts, why can't we create an unlimited supply of transplantable organs to keep people living indefinitely, and especially people with lung disease.
People used to toss litter into the streets, used to not wear seatbelts, used to smoke inside public buildings.
Perhaps we can learn to better use our buildings, better plan our cities.
As I walked around this morning, I noticed most of the buildings were huge mirrors reflecting the sun back into the desert.
When people take pictures of these buildings out of that context they look really weird, and my premise is that they make a lot more sense when they're photographed or seen in that space.
I tried to be inclusive, to include the buildings in the neighborhood, whether they were buildings I liked or not.
I was given an opportunity to design an exhibit for the metalworkers' unions of America and Canada in Washington, and I did it on the condition that they become my partners in the future and help me with all future metal buildings, etc. etc.
And it's just a complex of factory buildings.
Going out to the lake, you can see all those new buildings we built.
On September 11, 2001, 19 guys took over four airplanes and flew them into a couple of buildings.
The risks associated with 9/11 will not be measured in terms of lives lost by terror attacks or buildings destroyed or trillions of dollars spent. They'll be measured in terms of the costs of our distraction from critical issues and our inability to get together scientists, technologists, government leaders, at a moment of transformation akin to the beginning of the Renaissance, akin to the beginning of the major transformational eras that have happened on Earth, and start coming up with, if not the right answers, then at least the right questions.
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