Peter Marino

Architect

What’s one book, work of art, album, or film that got you through an important moment in your life?

I always thought people behaved like aliens. Then the revelatory film Men in Black came along and helped me realize how true that really is.

When you were little, what were you known for?

I was really good at making art. Adolph Gottlieb gave me a gold medal for a painting I did in 1966. It was a series of martini glasses that were cracked and split and glued onto a canvas.

““I always thought people behaved like aliens. Then the revelatory film 'Men in Black' came along and helped me realize how true that really is.””

Name an influence of yours that might surprise people.

Alice Stern taught me everything about French 19th-century ceramics and bronzes. Some people know, but most are surprised, that I have a collection of Théodore Deck, Ernest Chaplet, Adrien Dalpayrat, and Auguste Delaherche works.

What do you want to see more of in your industry? Less of?

I’d like to see more public appreciation for the complexity of designing buildings. And I’d like to see less fake intellectualizing and analyzing visual beauty.

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