Think outside the box Quotes by Lebbeus Woods

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

— Lebbeus Woods

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

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

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

— Lebbeus Woods

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

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

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

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

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

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

— Lebbeus Woods

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

— Lebbeus Woods

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