Best 15 quotes of Lebbeus Woods on MyQuotes

Lebbeus Woods

  • By Anonym
    Lebbeus Woods

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

  • By Anonym
    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 we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box?

  • By Anonym
    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 resides in fixed and frightened forms.

  • By Anonym
    Lebbeus Woods

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

  • By Anonym
    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 living.

  • By Anonym
    Lebbeus Woods

    Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

  • By Anonym
    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 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.

  • By Anonym
    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 other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that's up to them. I feel I'm making architecture. I believe the building comes into being as soon as it's drawn.

  • By Anonym
    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 this, isn't this amazing? It has to interactively involve them other than as spectators ... it has to engage them as creators.

  • By Anonym
    Lebbeus Woods

    I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules.

  • By Anonym
    Lebbeus Woods

    I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.

  • By Anonym
    Lebbeus Woods

    I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.

  • By Anonym
    Lebbeus Woods

    I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

  • By Anonym
    Lebbeus Woods

    Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

  • By Anonym
    Lebbeus Woods

    Paul Virilio and I, in our different ways, share an intense interest in the changes brought about by technological innovation, by cultural and social upheavals, by natural catastrophes like earthquakes and the social and architectural responses to them. I see these extreme cases as the avant-garde of a coming normality, one that we must engage creatively now, inventing new languages, rules and methods, if we are to preserve what is essential to our humanity, that is, compassion, reason, independence of thought and action.