Antoine Predock Quotes

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

I've choreographed all of my movies.

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

I enjoy being a choreographer.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

In architecture, space was a material to be shaped, even created. For these men, the material was silence. Silence like water in which you could drown, the absence of talk as constricting as the absence of air.

Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.