Theater and architecture are defined by the people that inhabit them. And an audience enlivening its streets, museums or restaurants, a city is only an empty frame. I think this has been reflected in the way the pandemic has affected public space. Everything for quite a long time was feeling very lonely. We were living in a period where we got to see what a city would like if it was all hardware.
As founder of the Rockwell Group, an award winning, cross-disciplinary architecture and design practice, David Rockwell has designed countless visual and spatial heartstoppers ranging from restaurants, hotels, airport terminals, and hospitals, to festivals, museum exhibitions, and Broadway sets. He joins to talk about his remarkable life and upcoming projects.