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Oase 70: Architecture and Literature QUOTES

Oase 70: Architecture and Literature QUOTES

1 " Agreement in a dialogue can lead to a cul-de-sac. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

2 " ...it is impossible to lay bare and shelter simultaneously... "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

3 " Architects can always make good use of vacant land, regardless of the horror that brought it into being: it is ruthless being that is supposed to make life possible again. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

4 " Is a complex, unconventional narrative better suited to exploring the play of conceptual possibilities than a simple conventional one? "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

5 " Each reader appropriates the book that he or she reads. The message so carefully transmitted by the writer always reaches the reading audience in a filtered, distorted and altered form. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

6 " The architect thinks of his client and builds a house like a machine, in order to be absolutely modern and retain only the most topical (and forward-looking) elements of the modern; the writer thinks of himself and writes a story as one way of understanding the modern tumult and all that preceded it. Together, they stamp the two sides of a single coin, an amulet for us to wear as we confront the future. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

7 " A house that is unheimlich is a house where you lose yourself, lose your way, literally or figuratively. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

8 " What do you want this new museum of ours to be, the director had asked him at one of the meetings – an encyclopedia or a novel? "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

9 " But this is where literature’s failing comes to the fore: it can describe, document and eulogize this loss, but can never intervene materially. This is what architecture can do, precisely because it cannot afford to linger over loss. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

10 " It is these guardians of the medium who have always clipped architecture’s wings are the moment the buds were about to burst open and who have mercilessly pruned back the roots of the medium so that they would not break open the concrete pavement. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

11 " If there is one genre of literature in which architecture indisputably plays a leading role, it is the gothic novel. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

12 " Successful architects tend to be highly skilled in presenting and arguing for a proposed design, both to clients and to colleagues. The rhetoric of these presentation is often filled with metaphors that capture the leading concepts as well as the important experimental or sensual qualities of the design. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

13 " Viewed from this perspective, architecture no longer provides a happy ending, but instead allows stories to continue. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

14 " Literature and architecture experience the world in the same way, but arrive at different decisions, and look in different directions. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

15 " The modernists tried to occupy multiple places within a single, indivisible moment, making it possible to take multiple positions simultaneously, so that reality took on greater transparency. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

16 " Literature unleashes revolutions only to withdraw from the fray, while architecture makes the demolition permanent by erecting buildings… "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

17 " …but we all know that each reader reads a book that is different to the one written by the author, and that the reading is tainted by the memories, fears and traumas that are the true standard lamps by which the reader sits and reads. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature

18 " The descriptive nature of literature, after all, is far removed from the prescriptive nature that typifies the design disciplines. "

― , Oase 70: Architecture and Literature