22 quotes found
Architect · Dutch · 1944
Dutch architect (born 1944)
“Find optimism in the inevitable.”
“There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.”
“I live in a Victorian apartment building in London.”
“The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now.”
“Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.”
“Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence.”
“We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing.”
“What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years....”
“People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and...”
“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”
“Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.”
“Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”
“The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less ...”
“Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.”
“Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.”
“Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.”
“Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue. (...) Its subtext is fuck context.”
“Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'hap...”
“We were making sand castles. Now we swim in the sea that swept them away”
“It's very simple and it has nothing to do with identifiable goals. It is to keep thinking about what architecture can be, in whatever form. That is an answer, isn't it? I think that S,M,L,XL has on...”
