I was 33 years. Richard was 36, I guess. We were bad boys. We were really bad boys. And we wanted to create actually totally different emotion, that is, the one of creating curiosity.
Curiosity is much better emotion than intimidation.
As usual, in architecture there is never one reason why you do this or that way. One reason for taking the machine out was, in fact, create that effect of a factory, but also there was another very important practical reason. By doing this we-we were making free the platform from fixed elements. And, you know, when you are 33 and you are asked to make a building for culture, that may last three or four hundred years, that is what people told us, I mean, you are in great trouble. You don't even understand what culture is about.