LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. They are a set of routes to way to make housing more efficient for producer and end user and in maintenance over the life of the building. The target is not wasting, and using what sun and water you get naturally, instead of shunting them away. Ideally a structure adds more oxygen than it C02 it produced, even in the use of equipment and materials. The emphasis is limiting impact on resources and maximizing impact of beautiful design for a space that is more ergonomic to live and work in.

Some architects design based on flat planes, boxes and tweaking the standard configurations. She has a much more 3-D model that she explodes. If one were to take a box and cut slashes out of it to open irregular flaps and fold the roof into irregular angles, and then, perhaps hang off a second story landing a ramp downward to a room that hangs in the atrium space, not touching the first floor. Decq finds that architects in general obey too much and we have to resist this conformity.

Fuksas has asked himself for 60 years why he does as he does in architecture. He explains his work as doing something like light does to the sculpture which is a city block. Light destroys flattens form and makes is more spiritual, a chaos sublime.

To demonstrate how he designs he asked for a sheet of paper from someone in the audience, walked over to the wall sconces and bent the page in various ways to show how the light changes the object. He is interested in not adding but taking away, simplifying, playing with planes.