Lebbeus Woods Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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