Growing up with an Italian communist father and having survived the American bombing of my hometown of Nantes at the end of the Second World War, I have been through a great deal in my time - the former left me both a Catholic and an anarchist, the latter left me a pacifist. While I wish I could lecture all over the world, I am terrified of travelling by technological means, especially airplanes and trains which could have an accident at any moment, which means that I spend most of my time within a very small amount of space where I can calm my nerves enough to feel that I am safe. Aside from my endless stream of thoughts on war and technology, I also design buildings that recall the aesthetics of bomb-shelters. Check out this one, my 'bunker-church' I did with Claude Parent:
