Michael Hansmeyer quotes

“[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.”
-- Michael Hansmeyer

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“If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?”
-- Michael Hansmeyer

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“The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isnt really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.”
-- Michael Hansmeyer

Source : "Sci-fi 'gothic' architecture brought to life" by Laura Allsop, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2011.

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“I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.”
-- Michael Hansmeyer

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“The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.”

“Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."”

“Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.”

“We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.”

“Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"”

Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.27, Penguin

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Think it over, think it under.”

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”