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 came from, you know, Jean-Paul Sartre. These are the ideas that got me worked up and inspired. It wasn't so much the visual things that inspired me. Although, of course, there were plenty of painters in history that I admired all the way from Brueghel to Goya, to Picasso - because everything visual stimulates me.
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…
- 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 … - 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 …
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.
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 … - Lebbeus Woods
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 …
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 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…
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…
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 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…
Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate. - Lebbeus Woods
Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.
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