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All clients think that they are architects.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Architects
Clients
Think
design
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Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
About
Aging
Always
Architecture
Authenticity
Building
More
Much
Place
Precision
Reasoning
See
Solid
Success
Suggesting
Superficial
Than
Well
You
design
copy
I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do - where is it located, what are the circumstances, where can I attack the problem, so to speak. How can you create a narrative for people moving through it? How can you convey its character?
~ Annabelle Selldorf
About
Always
Asked
Attack
Being
Character
Circumstances
Convey
Create
Even
How
Located
Moving
Narrative
People
Problem
Projects
Space
Speak
Tend
Think
Through
Where
You
design
copy
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
About
Act
Books
Connection
Information
Just
Just Something
Know
Looking
Old-Fashioned
One-Dimensional
Ownership
Physical
Screen
Sense
Something
Taking
Versus
Which
You
design
copy
I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Beautiful
Calm
Certain
Clarity
Confrontational
Kind
Logic
Make
Move
Perceive
Quality
Rather
Rational
Seek
Space
Spaces
Than
Worthwhile
You
design
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I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Like
Look
Never
Nice
Really
Simple
Things
design
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I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
About
Always
Architect
Concrete
Else
Had
He
I Remember
Knew
No-One
Particular
People
Remember
Specification
Talked
Young
design
copy
I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Architectural
Artifice
Clothes
Floor
Help
I Think
Look
Lying
Old
Old Clothes
Photography
Piles
Sets
Think
Up
You
design
copy
I was brought up to reuse things.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Brought
Things
Up
design
copy
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Art
Critical
Develop
Eye
Inspired
Looking
Make
Precedent
Things
Want
You
design
copy
I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Absolutely
Amazed
Exchanging
Incredibly
Interested
Left
Lot
Messages
Need
Over
People
Sake
Sophisticated
Spend
Systems
Technology
Things
Those
Time
Time People
design
copy
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
About
Always
Buildings
Industrial
Loved
Much
New
New York
One Of The Things
Ornament
Precedent
Things
York
design
copy
So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Address
Body
Enter
Great
How
Makes
Much
Room
Through
You
design
copy
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Architecture
Elements
Inexplicable
Interesting
Must
Mysterious
Perfectly
Poetic
Quality
Rational
Should
Something
Tension
design
copy
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Architecture
Eye
Good
Having
Meets
More
Secret
Than
The Secret Of
design
copy
There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
About
Any
Applications
Color
Context
Depends
Did
Example
Exquisite
For Example
Given
Go
Had
House
I Love
Love
Marble
Material
Mine
Most
Often
Ostentatious
Sounds
Subscribe
Thinking
White
design
copy
To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Books
Could
Keep
Luxury
Me
More
Nicest
Place
Room
Space
Where
Would
Would-Be
design
copy
What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Distinct
Just
Radical
Small
Ways
design
copy
When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Everything
One Thing
Orderly
Perfectly
Puts
Question
Thing
Understandable
design
copy
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Abide
Actually
Architecture
Brilliant
Classical
Designer
Does
Free
Free People
I Think
Part
People
Rules
Set
Spatial
Think
You
design
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