"Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to work both ways. Everyone thinks architecture has to be subservient to sustainability, but what if we thought in the other direction, like, what can sustainability do to make architecture more exciting?"

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Source : Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

Vito Acconci

#Thinking Quotes #What If Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot wash away one sin.Â The everlasting burnings in hell cannot purifyÂ the flaming conscience from the least sin.”
“Who doesnt love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?”
“Even here, in the U.S., I walk my daughter's dog and I look for interesting people sitting at a picnic table and I walk over with my white hair and I ask, "Would you mind if I sat and rested here for a minute?" Nobody would refuse that.”
“In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time.”
“I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.”

Source : Interview with Frances Colpitt, www.artpace.org.
“Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.”
“The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.”

Source : THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH (1903). “PONKAPOG PAPERS”
“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

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