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Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.
~ Christian de Portzamparc
Architecture
Framing
Link
Movies
Progression
Strong
Terms
Time
design
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In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.
~ Christian de Portzamparc
Architecture
Buildings
Campaign
City
Dangerous
Destroy
Destruction
Did
Happen
Modern
Old
Paris
Percent
Realized
Replacing
Richness
Student
Thankfully
Them
Understand
Utopia
Vision
design
copy
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.
~ Christian de Portzamparc
Above
Architecture
Beauty
Better
Essence
Every
Gesture
Give
Here
Justified
Living
Meaning
Meaning Of
More
Must
Need
Reason
Reasons
Rediscover
Reinforce
Sense
Shape
Use
Various
Various Reasons
Will
Would
design
copy
When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.
~ Christian de Portzamparc
Always
Am
Design
Even
Fight
I Am
Inspiration
Out
Project
True
Turns
Well
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copy
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.
~ Christian de Portzamparc
Architecture
Artist
Change
Change The World
City
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Intrigued
Life
Lived
Months
New
New York
Nine
Nine Months
Painting
Poets
Through
Time
Village
Waiter
Wanted
Working
World
Writers
York
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copy
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
~ Greg Lynn
Big
Construction
Horrible
Like
Look
Made
Percentage
Plastic
Some
Very
Wood
design
copy
As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.
~ Greg Lynn
Becomes
Concern
Going
More
More And More
See
Sustainability
design
copy
Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.
~ Greg Lynn
Before
Boundaries
Closed
Computers
Cubes
Designing
Handkerchief
I Can
Inside
Like
Much
Now
Object
Outside
Shapes
Something
Start
Strong
Using
Volume
You
design
copy
By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly.
~ Greg Lynn
Assembly
Building
Chain
Communication
Design
Easy
Enhances
Giving
Improves
Information
Intuitive
Links
Project
Sharing
Supporting
Them
Through
Tool
design
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I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
~ Greg Lynn
About
Care
Culture
Everyday
Everyday Life
Life
Like
Materials
Notice
Pop
Pop Culture
Really
Some
Something
Them
Used
Way
You
design
copy
It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.
~ Greg Lynn
Design
Out
Rocket
Rocket Science
Sacred
Science
Space
Turns
design
copy
It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.
~ Greg Lynn
Create
Exciting
Incredibly
Know
Living
People
Things
Using
design
copy
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
~ Greg Lynn
Architect
Deep
Deep Down
Down
Effect
Every
I Think
Most
Public
Realm
Satisfying
Think
Wants
design
copy
Plastics, as a material, are very nasty, but as an alternative to, let's say, a brick, which seems really natural, they start to look pretty good. They're very low energy to produce, very lightweight to transport and construct. That's why they're so popular.
~ Greg Lynn
Alternative
Brick
Construct
Energy
Good
Lightweight
Look
Low
Material
Nasty
Natural
Popular
Pretty
Pretty Good
Produce
Really
Say
Seems
Start
Transport
Very
Which
Why
design
copy
The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.
~ Greg Lynn
Clothes
Like
Necessarily
Tailored
design
copy
To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.
~ Greg Lynn
About
Also
Architecture
Back
Big
Both
Break
Coherent
Design
Down
Field
Go
Identity
Issue
Like
Object
Organic
Our
Product
Really
Realm
Rooms
Scale
Single
Small
Small Scale
Things
Unlike
Which
Whole
design
copy
What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.
~ Greg Lynn
About
Always
Architects
Architecture
Arguably
Beautiful
Beauty
Been
Interesting
Justify
Looking
Model
Nature
Tried
design
copy
When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go.
~ Greg Lynn
Attached
Became
Between
Big
Down
Everything
Get
Go
Had
Hate
Hollow
Horses
In-Between
Kids
Life
My Life
Plastic
Rocking
Scale
Secondhand
See
Store
Surrounded
Take
Them
Then
Things
Toys
Were
Which
Would
design
copy
With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.
~ Greg Lynn
About
Always
Am
Church
Design
Everything
I Am
Plate
Skyscraper
Spaces
Spoon
Thinking
Volumes
Voluptuous
design
copy
Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.
~ Greg Lynn
Calculated
Centers
Complex
Computer
Create
Curves
Else
Every
Everything
Everything Else
I Can
PC
Point
Reference
Structure
Using
Without
design
copy
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