Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.