Richard Meier - My small-scale work influenced my large-scale projects (10/36)
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I remember after the Smith House was finished one of the newspapers in London, I do not remember which one, wanted to run an article on their Sunday magazine section. And they asked a photographer who I knew, I didn’t know him well, but I knew him, named René Burri to go up and shoot... take photographs of the house for the newspaper...
I began by doing houses and then got this, you know, larger public work, but at the same
time, you know, I was always doing houses, so it's always a relationship of the small
scale work and the large scale work, and I think that in some ways that was very good
because we never lost sort of a sense of human scale in the large scale work, because dealing
with houses and designing things that go into the houses, you know, you're always conscious
of every single element, and I made sure that that was also true in the large scale work,
that every single element was considered as part of the whole, and so the attention to
detail and the sort of maniacal concentration on how every single thing is made is part
of, I think, the practice as it's developed over the years.