man this is a popular subject around...

"God is in the details" -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Or as my developer clients like to say (in addition the damn press and anyone else I don't like) "The Devil is in the details" which is of course absurd. No one really believing in God and the Devil could imagine Beelzebub caring about how a piece fits so well that you could cry just looking at it...

PJ ALL THE WAY

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business."

I'm sick of modern design.
I'm fed up with corporate cool.
I can't stand "interior design".
I hate those designer guys -- I love 'em --
but I detest that fabricated,artificial, managed, art-directed look.
I can't bear to see one more "continuous surface".
I've had it with perfection.
I hate the clean lines.
No more computer aided design.
Down with colour consultants.
Down with advertising. Down with PR.
Turn off TV.
Down with minimalism -- we want maximalism.
Down with reduction -- we want more! more! more!
Wealth?
Wealth is time.
Wealth is children.
Wealth is love.
Wealth is ideas, invention, exploration.
Wealth is books.
Wealth is collaboration, colleagues, friends, working together.
We're sick of the fake and phony.
We want it real.
Forget bandwidth.
We don't need a get-away, we need a get-to.

got this on bruce mau website
www.brucemaudesign.com

'If you start with good parmesian, you cut it up and sprinkle it on pasta, your chances of having good pasta are high. If you start with bad parmesian, no matter what you do to it, you are guaranteed to have bad pasta.'

Peter Eisenman ~ informal crit, 1995, the ohio state university

'COPY !!11!!1!'

Jeffrey Kipnis ~ studio meeting, 1995, the ohio state university

Two gems from Louis Kahn

"What does the brick want to be?... It wants to be something greater than it is."


“You say to brick, "What do you want, brick?" And the brick says to you, "I like an arch." And you say to brick, "Look, I want one too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel over you, over an opening." And then you say, "What do you think of that, brick?" Brick says, "I like an arch."”

Faux Architect Woody Harrelson:

'What is this?' (holds up a brick)

Faux Student:

'A weapon.'

aldo rossi said this in his acceptance speech of pritzker price,

-I am not obsessed with architecture, but I have always tried to make architecture in an honest way, like all those that honestly practice their profession. Like the stone masons or workmen who build the cathedrals, the factories, the big bridges, the big works of our time. Searching for truth in my profession, I have ended up loving architecture. Maybe it is a simple but strange satisfaction that makes one love his own profession. So let me call it "cara architettura," or in English, "dear architecture," or with your permission, "darling architecture."

was he gay?

only rita novel can talk about that..

Regarding the entry from danimal: In one issue of ANY there was an article about Kahn that pointed out something curious...I believe the line was, "At the Exeter Library, Lou asked a brick what it wanted to be and it said...'Veneer.'"

oh hell,,,, i wonder what the big holes wanted to be?

They helpfully responded "contextual on the outside and figurative on the inside"

hmmmm what an easy job for nothingness.

none of my bricks think !!

Wolf Prix (approximate) quote:

'We didn't know what to draw on the elevation, so we just drew X's over the facade because we hated the facade. But then we began to like the X's ~ because the X (makes large X gesture) means love (hugs himself). And I love this building ...'

Lecture, The Ohio State University, 1995

"We've got an issue in America. Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country"

sorry, thats a w. quote.

i thought it was priceless.

well i didn't say that kahn actually listened to the brick...

"STOP as two towers burst into a cathedral tower of light...
Steel Glass Cities dance to the animations of the artificaial light....
Expansion, contractions...the towers slowly begin to glow. Each a map of self, of placement, position in the real, in the irreal; reflections: animations..."

New Image Research Proposal
UNSW.
1992.

"You don't deserve to be an architect"

countless professors

"F*ck context."
- Rem Koolhaas

The strongest impression is paler than the weakest ink.

'Roam home to a dome
Where Georgian and Gothic once stood
And chemical bonds alone guard our blondes
And even the plumbing looks good.'

buckminster-fuller

'my favorate light fixture is a dimmer switch.'
- yours turuly

holy poop-on-a-stick

mr garrison

if you want to make it in architecture, be born rich or marry rich
(a professor who worked with philip johnson told me that he said this)

"architecture is all that... or the opposite of that" . Fernando Távora (1922- __), portuguese architect

"He treats objects like women, man."

-the dude-
in
"the big Lebowski"

Not an architect, but what a quote.

"They called Daniel Libeskind in Berlin because he has, you know, a monopoly on death or something"
or something like that... said Rafael Viñoly

Both of the women [Rem's wife and looooover] have been quoted on their relationships with Koolhaas, with Vriesendorp [the wife] telling The New York Times that "I always feel that he is a plug and the whole world is full of sockets,"

"less is more"
-lmvdr

following the above:

"less is bore" - R.Venturi

"less... is more or less" - Paulo Mendes da Rocha

To finish this sequence...

"I am a whore"
Philip Johnson

98 years old and he just announced his retirement, I guess the first whore in history who retires at this amazing age...

"You don't win competitions by drinking tea !!"

Le Corbusier ~ some time ago

'analytical sections are key to our spatial explorations and grounding element in our conceptualizations.'
- anonymous constipated architect.

Ugliness is a 'rare beatuy' and a 'common truth'

Massimiliano Fuksas:
"you know...that the best way to oxidize copper is...to make pi-pi."


"..and we tried."

Form follows function...Loos

Ornaments and Crime...Loos again (in fact he never said Ornaments is Crime)

"You have to have the courage to make it ugly."
-Steve Johnson

"I chose to make it an egg shape because it is the most difficult shape to make, and I figured if I can do this then I can do any shape well."
-A severely misguided student at a review...I think mango spilled his paper cup of coffee on his cleats when he heard that.

my blood boils when i see a bruce mau quote.

"Dwelling is the manner in which mortals are on the earth."

- M. Heidegger.

Not to forget:

"More is more"

- Rem Koolhaas, in Junk Space


ap

I'm really happy that Philip Johnson has decided to spend his retirement years dancing in those ads for Six Flags/Magic Mountain...

I'm really happy that Philip Johnson has decided to spend his retirement years dancing in those ads for Six Flags/Magic Mountain...

'who is rem kool? fuck'm.'
-miles davis

first, we shape our buildings; afterwards, our buildings shape us

winston churhill

'French Architecture is the worst in the world'

quote by Director Michael Winner upon being shown a picture of the Pompidou Centre. Of course this building was designed by a Brit and an Italian.

BRAD PITT ... when asked: "Who are your favorite architects?"


"Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas are my two favorites. MVRDV, ahhhh, some of my favorites!

The voices are out there, and to the people who are putting money into new buildings, use these guys! What I love most about MVRDV are that these guys are completely redesigning how the masses are moving through the city (Rotterdam) and experiencing it. There's this architect I just found out about named Stephen Holl, who's great. I've also been jonesing about Daniel Liveskind."


YEAH....you guys.....

*after any project/idea Rem showed him at his 2 hours stay at OMA (so well pictured @ archinect), this quote was obtained from some female species that were working at OMA at the moment and were very interested to see how much intelectual feedback they could have from Pitt's gifted brain

"The light at the end of the Tunnel has been turned off to conserve energy..."

--dunnowhosaidthis

"The best designers......are those that steal."
-anonymous architecture proffesor

"They want me to Hindoo, Hindon't I say ..."

Edwin Lutyens

great

"It's just stuff"
Rakatansky

Went to a lecture by Aldo van Eyck, maybe a year before he passed away...an old man, but what a lecture, he was jumping around the stage and it felt like he could drop dead every moment, what a passion!
He was fulminating against Koolhaas/OMA...and he felt betrayed by Hertzberger, his former protectee who made the switch from vanEyckism to Koolhaasism...and shouted to us:

Don't listen to OMA, listen to OPA

(translation from Dutch:
OMA=grandmother
OPA=grandfather (=old Aldo)

sorry about the Dutch, but it was just too great a moment not to tell