Annabelle Selldorf famous quotes

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Thinking #People #Doe

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Interesting #Quality #Elements

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Reading #Technology #Library

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Eye #Secret #Architecture

I was brought up to reuse things.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Reuse

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Architecture #Aging #Authenticity

All clients think that they are architects.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Thinking #Clients #Architect

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Art #Eye #Want

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Orderly #One Thing

To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Book #Luxury #Space

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Way #Radical

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Beautiful #Moving #Space

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Photography #Lying #Thinking

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Body #Addresses #Rooms

I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Technology #People #Messages

I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Nice #Simple #Looks

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#Book #Connections #Information

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
-- Annabelle Selldorf

#People #Remember #Architect