Antoine Predock Quotes

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'

Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.