Vito Acconci Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• Architecture is not about space but about time.

  Vito Acconci

  Space, Architecture, Architect

  Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.dezeen.com. October 13, 2012.

• It was very definitely architectural. I was using the words on the page as some kind of equivalent of a physical model. But I never thought at that point that I wanted to move toward architecture. I wanted to move toward real space. Sure, that's probably another way of saying, I want to move toward architecture. But I didn't define real space in terms of architecture, then.

  Vito Acconci

  Real, Moving, Space

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

• 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?

  Vito Acconci

  Thinking, What If, Architecture

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

• 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.

  Vito Acconci

  Hate, People, Goal

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

• When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to do architecture that people can have a free hand in the making of it. We've done spaces where things are hinged and they can go out or in, but that's not freedom. That's supermarket freedom, or the notion that you can have anything you want as long as the supermarket carries it. We would love to do a space where you go inside and there's nothing there. You might have a seat and when you don't need it anymore you get up and it disappears.

  Vito Acconci

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

• What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a context. You can do other things while you're listening to music and of course, you can do other things while you're in the middle of architecture. The notion of multi-attention seems to me like it's the keynote to the beginning of the 21st century.

  Vito Acconci

  Listening, Architecture, Music Is

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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