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

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

- 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

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

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

- 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

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

- Lebbeus Woods