Ai Weiwei Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

  Ai Weiwei

  Badass, Bad Ass, Criticism

• I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, Design, Competition

  "Ai Weiwei: China excluded its people from the Olympics. London is different". www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2012.

• I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

  Ai Weiwei

  Photography, Art, People

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

• I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

  Ai Weiwei

  Believe, Collaboration, Architecture

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

• As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Writing, Practice

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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