PRECEDENTS, SOURCES OF INSPIRATION, AND
OTHER MOTIVATING COMMENTS

...on Architecture

"This is where amateurs have an advantage over pros. A pro knows what he can deliver, and rarely goes beyond it. An amateur has no concept of his limitations and generally goes beyond them."
-- Trey Gunn: Road Diaries, Project Two. Discipline Global Mobile, 1998. In Foreign Office Architects: The Yokohama Project. Actar, 2002.

"The act of observation is part of the phenomena observed. You are not only part of the flow, you are the flow. The flow is manifest only through you, your perception, your invention. But only if you see it, and then, only if you act... if you flow, too. If you measure the moment for the properties of time and space, it behaves like architecture. Architecture is an action and a choosing. It is a flow of choices by the architect, liberating the possibility of possibilities for others."
-- Lebbeus Woods, "Stranger." In Architecture of Transportation. Architectural Design, 64:5/6, May-June 1994.

"...the changing roles of architects means they might be less involved with the 'technology of construction,' but they must be involved with the 'construction of technology' instead."
-- Bernard Tschumi: "...Why become and architect?" In Architecture on the Horizon. Architectural Design, 1996.