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Annabelle Selldorf

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    Annabelle Selldorf

    All clients think that they are architects.

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    Annabelle Selldorf

    Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

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    Annabelle Selldorf

    I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.

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    I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

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    I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

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    I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things.

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    I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

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    I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

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    One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

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    So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

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    Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

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    The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

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    What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

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    When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.