Top 13 Antoine Predock Quotes

#1. I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.

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#2. My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site ... I take that baggage with me.

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#3. One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

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#4. Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.

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#5. It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

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#6. The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then it sacrifices itself and blows away.

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#7. I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

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#8. I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

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#9. Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

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#10. Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

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#11. The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

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#12. The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.

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#13. A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

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