Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots Podcast. I'm Tracy Alloway.
And I'm Joe Weisenthal.
Jo, you know I spend a lot of my time doing interior design. Yes. Bored you, I'm sure, a lot of thoughts on this topic. But then it struck me recently that actually what I'm doing is not really interior design. It's just interior decorating because I'm not really changing the structure of a particular house. I don't like doing that in part because I'm lazy and I hate construction mess, but also because it's a lot harder to change the particular design of a house than it is to just get new fabric for the windows or a new paint color. There are more real world constraints.
You know, it's interesting to put it. I can confirm having looked over from time to time, you know, we sit next to each other, I can confirm having looked at you and say, like, looking out wallpaper and very vintage wallpaper that you might be acquiring. But no, I have not heard of you sort of talk about, you know, knocking down big walls or whatever inside your home. Although I certainly, you know, in New York City, you know people who do that and they hire an architect as part of they'll buy two condos or something like that and conjoin them and hire an architect and so forth. That's a diffe
Well, is the other thing I've been thinking. Am I a product of my time? Because so much of the cultural emphasis nowadays seems to be on interior design and what the inside of a building looks like versus the exterior. And I think if I had been thinking about these things in the 1990s or the 1980s, I would be much more into architecture.
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