What are your hopes for the future of architecture?
As technology evolves, architecture follows technological trends and loses a certain amount of human expression, which is sad. I would say that China has more creativity sometimes—less limitations and more opportunities for young Chinese architects to explore, and to be involved in discussions about global issues. I would say that architecture is a very exciting but also very difficult profession. I feel that how much you can achieve is very much related to how much you believe. That’s [the thing that is] very attractive about this profession, that you can turn people’s dreams into something that is physical.
I think in the future, architecture will focus more on human emotion. That includes how we see the world we’re living in, which is, of course, is nature,—the sky, the universe, the air, the sunshine around us. It will…
