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Architecture Quotes by Lebbeus Woods
- Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.
- 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…
- Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.
- Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.
- 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,…
- I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of…
- Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that…
- I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me…
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- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
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- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the… — Alvar Aalto
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities… — Alvar Aalto
- Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
- The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto
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