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.
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.
Playing good girls in the '30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
Art is a spirit seeking flesh but finding words.
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
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