prometheus

Form is the possibility of structure.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Christoph Engel | Haus Esters | 2003

There is no way to perform architecture in a book. Words and drawings can only produce paper space, not the experience of real space. By definition, paper space is imaginary; it is an image.

Bernard Tschumi

gropius

Walter Gropius | Haus Stichweh | 1953

Architects don't invent anything; they just transform reality.

Álvaro Siza Vieira

ig

Isa Genzken | Fenster | 1990

Art is an idea that has found its perfect form.

Paul Rand

bn

Barnett Newman | Untitled Etching #1 | 1969

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Robert Motherwell

ader

Bas Jan Ader, 1975

The subject of the work is your experience, your walking.

Richard Serra

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Harald Szeemann, 2001

sqq. Verzauberung auf Zeit

I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don’t want to be aware of it or make that my problem.

Eva Hesse

barcelona_detail

There is never any question of what to paint, but how to paint.

Robert Ryman

mies_nng

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Neue Nationalgalerie | 1968

Simplicity of form is not necessarily simplicity of experience.

Robert Morris

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Bernd and Hilla Becher | Transformator Bous | 1970

Don’t confuse minimal with simple.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

lmvdr_lemke

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Haus Lemke | 1933

I believe that all painters are realists for themselves. They are abstract for other people.

Zao Wou Ki

treppenhaus

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

Ad Reinhardt

j_b

Joachim Bandau | Überhängend | 2000

I think if you want to make art, at some point you have to suspend judgment, and you have to involve yourself with play and not worry about the outcome.

Richard Serra

Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space.

Richard Serra

magazine

To me, the minimalist aesthetic is the most humanist of all, one that elicits the full power of all our senses.

Richard Meier

hlgs

Gregor Schneider | u61; Haus Lange | 1994


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