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. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box?
If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at thi… - 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 thi…
- 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 of livi… - 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 of livi…
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 is what the … - 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 me is what the …
I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural… - 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 an architectural…
Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate. - Lebbeus Woods
Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.
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 … - Lebbeus Woods
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 …
A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society. - Lebbeus Woods
A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.
Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea. - 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 w… - 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 w…
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