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On Taking Risks.
Looking at modernism and classicism, neither of which I’m primarily known for (I’m a romantic), has shifted
a lot of my work, including my current house, toward creation of a new romantic modernism. I used to love for
a house to ramble, be relaxed with the internal symmetries of classicism, but now I’m looking at modernism and
classicism through many years of style and genre fusion, which makes me super qualified to do this. Creating
a new classicism and new modernism will be a piece of the romantic part I’m looking for. It’s been great fun,
and at 62, I am asking more of my clients to take a risk and jump off a cliff with me. Let’s do something unique.
On Solving Problems.
In order to find a solution, I do not look outward for inspiration until I have already identified something inside
myself. Once I pull that out where I can see it, only then will I look at the world for elements to mature that vision.
Everything is born out of an inner feed. We are lined in facets of everything we’ve ever noticed and treasured.
You’re always feeding more facets, and so there may be two things that fire when you’re talking to someone that
come together to be the real truth of a solution. Once you identify that, you can use it as a guide to keep yourself
from straying too far. You remember that what you first knew is perhaps the ultimate thing.
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