Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse Quotes

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“The purpose of books is not to be read. I buy books not to read them. I own a lot of books. I write books, I collect books, I think about books, I copy books, I pay for books â€� I’m in the book business. But I don’t read books.”
― Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse
― Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse
“Exhibitions are precisely what we
shouldn’t trust, because they are so seductive. We go into a room that we can only walk through in a certain way, and there’s a certain lighting scheme, and it might smell a certain way. Whereas when we read something on a blog, we do that in our own home, in the conditions that we have chosen, and we can determine how our body is situated. We just can’t do those things in an exhibition.”
― Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse
shouldn’t trust, because they are so seductive. We go into a room that we can only walk through in a certain way, and there’s a certain lighting scheme, and it might smell a certain way. Whereas when we read something on a blog, we do that in our own home, in the conditions that we have chosen, and we can determine how our body is situated. We just can’t do those things in an exhibition.”
― Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse
“People come, students and everyone else, to be inspired by the biennale. They expect to see architecture as a kind of seismograph of where we are.”
― Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse
― Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse
“…the essence of art is its constant redefinition. So the moment that architecture wants to redefine itself, it moves into art. That’s why the pairing of art and architecture is desirable, not as an excuse but as a vector of moving towards something else.”
― Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse
― Four Conversations on the Architecture of Discourse