Gae Aulenti quotes

“The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.”
-- Gae Aulenti

Source : Gae Aulenti, Margherita Petranzan (1997). “Gae Aulenti”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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“When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.”
-- Gae Aulenti

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“I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.”
-- Gae Aulenti

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“I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.”
-- Gae Aulenti

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“Light is impressionism.”
-- Gae Aulenti

Source : Time, December 8, 1986.

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“My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.”
-- Gae Aulenti

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“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”

“It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.”

“The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.”

“The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…”

“I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.”

“Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.”

“Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.”

“We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.”

“The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.

“If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.”