If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it.… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
