Top 9 Quotes by Antoine Predock

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it,

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

Antoine Predock

Stars, Moving, Moon

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Antoine Predock

Intellectual, Architecture

Antoine Predock, Brad Collins, Juliette Robbins (1994). “Antoine Predock, architect”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away.

Antoine Predock

Sacrifice, Blow, Nurse

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. Its an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.

Antoine Predock

Discipline, Intellectual, Environmental

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

Antoine Predock

Responsibility, Animal, Thinking

I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Antoine Predock

Dad, Thinking, Engineering

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

Antoine Predock

America, Venice, Energy