When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to do architecture that people can have a free hand in the making of it. We've done spaces where things are hinged and they can go out or in, but that's not freedom. That's supermarket freedom, or the notion that you can have anything you want as long as the supermarket carries it. We would love to do a space where you go inside and there's nothing there. You might have a seat and when you don't need it anymore you get up and it disappears.
Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing,… - Vito Acconci
Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing,…
- Vito Acconci
I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t… - Vito Acconci
I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t…
What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the vie… - Vito Acconci
What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the vie…
I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that if you… - Vito Acconci
I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that if you…
It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole. - Vito Acconci
It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.
Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's be… - Vito Acconci
Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's be…
I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm sub… - Vito Acconci
I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm sub…
Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along… - Vito Acconci
Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along…
Architecture is not about space but about time. - Vito Acconci
Architecture is not about space but about time.
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