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“If you think of Brick, you say to Brick, ‘What do you want, Brick?’ And Brick says to you, ‘I like an Arch.’ And if you say to Brick, ‘Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel over you. What do you think of that, Brick?’ Brick says, ‘I like an Arch.’ And it’s important, you see, that you honor the material that you use. [..] You can only do it if you honor the brick and glorify the brick instead of shortchanging it.”
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
(via nevver)
“It is important to use your hands. This is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator.”
“The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!”
“Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.”
“I don’t really think about things like ‘is it comfortable?’ ‘How big is it?’ ‘What’s the fridge like?’ I think about whether or not the space will give me energy and encouragement.”
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Ultimately, what determines the permanence of a building is not the wealth of the developer or the materials that are used, but the simple question of whether or not the resulting structure is supported — loved — by the people.
Architecture made simply for profit — even if it’s in concrete — is in fact temporary. Commercial architecture is precisely that. If it is made for making money then eventually some other developer will come along and try to make more money out of it by demolishing it and rebuilding it. And it just repeats. In that way concrete is in fact temporary.
However, if you make architecture that is loved by the people, then regardless of what it is made of, it will be kept.
”“The design is probably 5 percent of our time and 95 percent of our time is execution and getting it done.”
DB:: What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given?
Aakash Nihalani:: Don’t take advice.
DB:: What is the worst piece of advice you have ever been given?
Aakash Nihalani:: Don’t take advice.
“I’m always working. Like a lot of creative people I can’t switch off. I can’t disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.”
“It’s not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it’s about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a [blank], then you’ll be a great [blank]. If it’s only about passion, sometimes you’ll be good and sometimes you won’t. You’ve got to come in every day with a strong desire.”
“Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly—the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.”
