"Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's behavior in that space. I don't know if we know how to change that, but our goal is to make spaces for people rather than people being subservient to spaces."

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Source : Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

Vito Acconci

#Hate Quotes #People Quotes #Goal Quotes

“I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.”

Source : "I don’t miss running, says Donovan Bailey". Interview with Paul Irish, www.thestar.com. November 28, 2011.
“Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?”

Source : Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 10), 1956.
“In my hometown memories are fresh.”
“I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.”
“In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.”
“In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.”
“A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.”
“I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.”

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