They Are Soulful Buildings
Tom Kundig: I sat in a pew and all of a sudden I realized there was something moving off to the left because there was only one cross, all of a sudden I felt like something was moving, but I really wasn't aware of it.
Lynn Nottage: And I didn’t know the endgame. I still don’t know.
Kundig: That's really where I would say I grew up.
Nottage: What we’ve settled on is that it’s going to probably be in a supermarket because of the symbolic resonance of that, and that it’s located downtown and it was never occupied.
Kundig: Totally fair. They are soulful buildings.
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Nottage: It was so, so petty. But the flip side is you don’t want someone to come to your house and tie you up with duct tape.
Kundig: It scared the living hell out of me.
Nottage: Or even more so when you read some of the criticism that critics write and you feel like you want to write to them.
Kundig: You're interested, you're a person that's curious about life, you're curious about what the situation is.
Nottage: I think we’re at the phase where we’ve sort of talked it to death and now we have to implement some of the things we’re talking about.
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Kundig: I don't know if there is. I think that's what architecture is all about.
Nottage: Particularly for the installation, we’re still trying to find it.
Kundig: That was possibly one of the last things I was interested in pursuing.
Nottage: I do think that’s true. I feel like it’s the opposite.
Kundig: It is just all personal, almost genetic vibrations in a way.