To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.
Interpretation
Building involves turning architectural ideas into tangible structures that expand our understanding.
Frei Otto's quote emphasizes the role of architecture as a transformative process that makes theoretical concepts manifest. By 'building,' we not only create physical structures but also push the boundaries of what we know, leveraging creativity and intellect to explore new possibilities within the realm of design and construction.
In practice
This quote could be used in an architectural presentation to inspire students about the importance of knowledge in design.
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?
Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.
Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.
I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people together in the cinema at the same place and the same time, having them all experience extreme fear and come out alive at the end. It's an uplifting experience, and there's a sense of elation.
Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.
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