Annabelle Selldorf best Design Quotes – “I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.”
Annabelle Selldorf best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I’m not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.”
Annabelle Selldorf best Architecture Quotes – “The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.”
Annabelle Selldorf best Architecture Quotes – “Tension is an interesting quality – and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.”
Annabelle Selldorf best Architecture Quotes – “There’s no architect who doesn’t want to build a library – and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading – because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity – that is a very exciting area in architecture.”
Annabelle Selldorf best Architecture Quotes – “When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.”