I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts, from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, it came from, you know, Jean-Paul Sartre. These are the ideas that got me worked… — 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
