WILDERNESS DOUG AITKEN interview by olivier zahm and aleph molinari OLIVIER ZAHM — You’re from LA and studied there, right? DOUG AITKEN — Yes, I was born here, on the coast. I went to the Art Center [College of Design] with your friend Francois Perrin, who used to teach architecture. OLIVIER ZAHM — You travel all over the world, but you never really left LA. It’s your studio — it’s your life. And your main inspiration? DOUG AITKEN — I lived in New York in the ’90s for about 10 years. Then I moved back to LA gradually after I realized it’d be a good idea to have a studio that I could work out of. So, Venice became the ticket for that. When you think about the history of major cities in the world, most of them evolved over time because of trade routes. One of the…