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

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

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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 drawings that oth…

- 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

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's su…

- 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

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