Quotes

Quote: Alvar Aalto

14 September 2009

“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.” – Alvar Aalto

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Quote: Robin Boyd

14 September 2009

“This often brutal and always mercenary industry is, in fact, involuntarily guided at a remote distance by intellectual and artistic passion beyond its ken”. – Robin Boyd

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Quote: Murray Johnson

18 August 2009

“Alistair Knox identified mud brick, solid timber and corrugated iron as key ingredients in his vision for an Australian vernacular architecture.” – Murray Johnson

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“I may be among the very few design architects who go out of their way to form joint ventures on almost all their projects. I do this because I thoroughly enjoy the intellectual & artistic interplay between what begins as ‘them’ and ‘us’ and ends simply as ‘we’.“ – Daniel Libeskind

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Brutal Art? Interesting name…

8 July 2009

We often get asked about our name.
Some people love it.
Some people hate it.

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Quote: Alistair Knox

1 July 2009

“The house and land have become one and they are also at one with it. A spatial relationship is restored between man and nature. The mind and body of the corporate state man are transformed into the spirit, mind and body of the environmental man who finds ‘tongues in the running brooks, sermons in stones [...]

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