"There's no architect who doesn't want to build……" — Annabelle Selldorf
"There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture."
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12 Quotes by Annabelle Selldorf
Annabelle Selldorf has 12 quotes on this site.
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When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think…
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Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious,…
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The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
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All clients think that they are architects.
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Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the…
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I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do - where…
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So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the…
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To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one…
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I was brought up to reuse things.
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I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to…
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When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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