Richard Meier - Why I developed the metal panels (14/36)

The reason the metal panels investigation began was that the nature of the projects had, no... had... let me just go back a bit. The natures of the projects were such that you could interpret what... how they might be expressed, that, you know, that they could be something different because they were... of the use that they had. And... and after the... for instance, the Athenaeum has no use, has no preconceived notion of what, you know, that should be in relation to where it is, what it’s next to. It’s out in a field, you know, you don’t have to work in a... in a historic context. If it were in the center of New Harmony, which is all of these kind of historic buildings, you might have to think about it differently, but it’s not. It’s, sort of, aside, it’s separate. And that began a sort of investigation into building materials that, sort of, could be made in a factory, be economical, shipped to the field where you would have control over the way in which it’s made.