Steven Holl Quotes
For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.
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When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
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I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
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My idea of working out is going upstairs in my apartment.
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Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.
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Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me - the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
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I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.
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My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.
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It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
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For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.
