You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.
BEN NICHOLSONYou can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.
BEN NICHOLSONI see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
BEN NICHOLSONVery rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here.
BEN NICHOLSONI haven’t done any building designs since the Loaf House.
BEN NICHOLSONSatire is fascinating stuff. It’s deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it’s the only thing that makes any sense.
BEN NICHOLSONWhat I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
BEN NICHOLSONAny ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
BEN NICHOLSONThe kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural… Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.
BEN NICHOLSONI’m not an expert, but I want to be.
BEN NICHOLSONI deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
BEN NICHOLSONI have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.
BEN NICHOLSONThe corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
BEN NICHOLSONWe are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
BEN NICHOLSONThe beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
BEN NICHOLSONRealism’ has been abandoned in the search for reality: the ‘principal objective’ of abstract art is precisely this reality.
BEN NICHOLSONI’m not an expert, but I want to be.
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