A friend of mine who’s a wonderful poet, Susan Stewart, said that hearing is how we touch at a distance. Isn’t that beautiful? I think that’s also how I start projects in some ways: I just try to listen for what something needs to become. Or to find the right question. Listening is obviously a very specific thing in a conversation, but it’s also a practice for me as I respond to spaces. The felt quality of the architecture of a space already has all this information in it. You’re listening to the space.
