MASTER OF DESIGN DVD:2

10 profiles on one DVD

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SYDNEY

I was taught by George Ingham at the Canberra school of art. I would do the absolute best I could do and think I had this most special thing, and bring it over and say 'Check this out', and then he would strip you down and you would go home feeling 'Ohhhh I'm broken!' But you would come back the next day and he would lift you to understand the importance of detail, the refinement, not to stop to think 'that will do'. Burn it and start again and get it perfect.

[ awarded a prize by Philippe Stark]

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MELBOURNE

I was exposed to these different paradigms and philosophies, all very valid but sometimes absolutely contradictory. One was Massimo Marozzi. He was a continuous chain smoker, continuos ristretto coffee drinker. Massimo believed in throw away things and I have never been confortable with that idea. But then he taught me another lesson. Hardly anybody washes today with collected water which started me thinking about flat areas which is going back centuries to the Greek and Roman times.

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MELBOURNE

I really liked working with a material that was really hard like granite, where after I hit the chisel and hammer into it, it just bounces back and there is a little dot, and you have put your whole energy into it.

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SYDNEY

Good design fills the spirit. It is a way of having more than a 2 dimensional life, you have a multi dimensional life, there is meaning in everything. It is like music. Why listen to this particular song? Because it speaks to you.

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MELBOURNE

We allow each other to express ourselves and let the other person's idea to run over over the top of our idea. Most architects have their idea and they don't want anyone tampering with that idea. What we have is a kind of strange symbiosis.

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MELBOURNE

People's exposure to hospitality is alot higher today, so they are actually wanting hospitality elements bought back into the office environment, and vice versa back into residential design: that it is not just a home office, but it is also a spot where they actually spend alot of time trying to reinforce their lifestyle as well, so they are actually trying to gain time back.

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SYDNEY

A country like Italy wouldn'be be pioneers of design still today, if they didn't persue different benchmarks all the time but the majority have reached their comfort zone. Whereas here in Australia I think we are not constrained so much with tradition, here in Australia we are able to be more adventurous with our ideas.

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MELBOURNE

Glass is a very hard medium to master and it is very frustrating at the beginning. The more you work with it, the more determined you are that you have to master this glass and it sucks you in.

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MELBOURNE

Whilst it is fluid, whilst it is workable, it is moving - often people describe glass making a little bit like a bull fight - you tease it, you prod it, and you get to know it, but it always does something unexpected.

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MELBOURNE

All through my art career I have been interested in colour. In the 70's I was much more within a figurative tonal range of colour but once I realised that when I played complementary colour, I could make it dance.

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MELBOURNE

I will often talk to my staff about how forgiving the building process is, because it is so slow. As long as you are on a site and looking creatively rather than looking for defects, you realise there is still an enormous potential even in the act of construction to further revise and develop some of your ideas.

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NEW YORK

I inherited nothing. Everything I have is what I have bought. Unfortunately living in America, and particularly in New York, we have such small spaces you don't have a chance to do all the things you like to do with the things you have collected so you end up putting them in storage. It is a sickness you know. Collecting is a sickness.

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