David Rockwell

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	I would look out at the city and realized we were living in a period where we got to
0:13.6	see what a city would like if it was all hardware.
0:16.9	It was such awakening of how cities are inert without people and there was none of the
0:22.5	life of the city and it was brutal.
0:28.6	From the Ted Audio Collective this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.
0:36.1	For 18 years Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about
0:40.0	what they do, how they got to be who they are and what they're thinking about and working
0:44.1	on.
0:45.2	On this episode David Rockwell talks about designing restaurants, stage sets and buildings.
0:50.9	I think my interest started out on how people come together and how spaces encourage
0:57.1	us to interact with each other.
1:02.8	David Rockwell's work is very theatrical, literally and figuratively.
1:07.7	He has designed numerous Broadway and television sets and the restaurants, hotels, airport
1:14.3	terminals and other projects he's designed tend to be visual and spatial heart stoppers.
1:21.4	David is the founder and president of the Rockwell Group which has offices here in New York
1:26.7	as well as Los Angeles and Madrid.
1:29.2	Two of his latest projects are theater related.
1:32.0	He designed the sets for the recent revival of the Broadway show Into the Woods and his
1:37.5	company designed the new civilian hotel in Manhattan's theater district.
1:42.9	He's here to talk about those projects as well as his remarkable life and career.
1:48.5	David Rockwell, welcome to Design Matters.
1:50.7	Thank you so much, great to be here.
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