The trends that I am seeing today, well first of all I think it is absolutely fascinating how the
word environmentalist and the environmental movements, let’s say, has gone from something
really ghettoized even 10 years ago. I think it was easily demonized and you could say
environmentalist then you could really dismiss someone pretty easily, to today where every
multinational corporation is figuring out how to market themselves as green or sustainable or
environmental. and you could argue that it is being co-opted and commercialize in such a way
that doesn’t even have meaning anymore and the affective it is of these greener sustainable like
axe are really meaningless, because they have so little affect or there so minimal in comparison
to the crisis that we are facing. But I think it is a positive thing that the people are taking it
seriously in, but if you just look at the cultural shift I think it is pretty phenomenal how quickly
people mindsets can change given the circumstances that we live in. So, I think that is one thing
for sure.
In terms of architecture and art I am amazed that how far we have come from 20 years ago, when
I was in architectural school to this time of these superstar architects and this. I thinks these a lot
of empty formalism which may be I referred to previously about just beauty in aesthetics to, I
think we are living and moving towards a very sophisticated time in architecture and designs
specifically where, I am amazed to see even how architecture and designer talked about in the
press, where we have, I think we expect a lot more from architecture and design than we did in
the 70s and 80s. I think people are more savvy about it and they are more critical. People feel
more comfortable talking in about it and demanding more from the world that we live in terms of
that architecture and design, we were creating.
The world of art, I think it is very different world, it is a very different discourse that is
happening there. I think I guess my biggest disappointment in the art world today is the
commercial systems that props it up and I think we are all suffering from it in some ways. I think
a more critical, thoughtful and powerful art would emerge if that contemporary commercial
system that it is a part of opened up or if the artist starts to question it more or find other ways to
practice. I think today more than ever we need artist and we need architects who are really
powerful agents in society, stepping out side of those box that are made for them or giving to
them when they going into school or indoctrinated into and take charge of their practices and
take charge of the way they are. Operating the world and I think today in the art world, I am
starting to see that open up and I do thing actually with this Whitney Biennial we are starting to
see it open up. We are starting to see a large percentage of the artist in the show are roles that
representing commercially and don’t show at galleries, but have really complicated practice is
that take them out in to the real world in ways that we haven’t seen as much before, which I this
it is very exciting.