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title: "1 Aesthetic Pleasure Quotes By Keller Easterling"
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> [In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing to do with art. So I'm making it clear that this is an artistic choice. It's not everyone's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/in-architecture-to-do-anything-beyond-object-form-is-often-treated-as/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30b/keller-easterling-31933_aesthetic_in-architecture-to-do-anything-beyond-ob_1732425.jpg)

## More by Keller Easterling

> [It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/it-would-never-occur-to-me-to-map-my-research-against-events-in-my/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [There are dangers surrounding innocuousness and consensus and habit. ISO organizes hundreds of people on technical committees who are, no doubt, trying to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/there-are-dangers-surrounding-innocuousness-and-consensus-and-habit/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [I thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in the university.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/i-thought-architecture-would-offer-a-mix-of-the-artful-and-practical/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [In the context of the kind of infrastructure space I'm looking at, I'm making a very unlikely argument by saying that all the stuff…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/in-the-context-of-the-kind-of-infrastructure-space-i-m-looking-at-i-m/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [It wasn't an architect who did this, but if it had been an architect, it would have been a good day's work: there was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/it-wasn-t-an-architect-who-did-this-but-if-it-had-been-an-architect/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [If you're steering a boat down a river, it's not something about which you can know that. You can only know how to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/if-you-re-steering-a-boat-down-a-river-it-s-not-something-about-which/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines might exploit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/rather-than-asking-architecture-to-be-more-interdisciplinary-a/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [Few would look at a concrete highway system or an electrical grid and perceive agency in their static arrangement, spaces and urban arrangements are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/few-would-look-at-a-concrete-highway-system-or-an-electrical-grid-and/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [I love making object form; I wish I was doing more of it. I admire the research of my colleagues, and sometimes it makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/i-love-making-object-form-i-wish-i-was-doing-more-of-it-i-admire-the/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [Architects and urbanists are fascinated with cities that are shrinking, like the Rust Belt cities. Or, alternatively, we are fascinated with the growth of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/architects-and-urbanists-are-fascinated-with-cities-that-are/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [It's funny how much one learns from context. Throughout that entire visit to Kenya, with all its meetings, there was an experience of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/it-s-funny-how-much-one-learns-from-context-throughout-that-entire/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [There is a comfort with design that may be a detail, rather than a building; comfort with form that is time-released and never finished.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/there-is-a-comfort-with-design-that-may-be-a-detail-rather-than-a/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/in-architecture-to-do-anything-beyond-object-form-is-often-treated-as/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the one thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/the-whole-idea-of-action-being-a-carrier-of-information-is-something/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

> [It may be unfathomable in architecture, but it is very practical, or routine, for a person in theater to use action. You have the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keller-easterling/it-may-be-unfathomable-in-architecture-but-it-is-very-practical-or/)

[Keller Easterling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keller-easterling/)

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