Matt Kaul

'What man needs is silence & warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.' ~Simone Weil

I love the impulse toward community in the work of the great Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto, winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize.

But I find the reliance on concrete, glass, & stark metals off-putting—working against the goals of his projects. A lingering, cold modernism, despite the beauty.