“Architecture is something different from building. So what makes it different? [...] And there is something else. The more concepts and ideas formulated by the architect have an immediacy for contemporary conditions of living, thinking, working, the higher we will value it as architecture. We want architecture to participate in the crucial changes affecting our lives, and not simply form a backdrop to them.”

Lebbeus Woods in What is Architecture?

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“It seems odd that in order to make a point, one often has to drag out historic precedents such as Cedric Price in order to illustrate the importance of critical, open source planning. Cedric’s Fun Palace description still, today, feels highly contemporary: “The varied and ever ever-changing activities will determine the form of the site. To enclose these activities the anti-building must have equal flexibility. Thus the prime motivation of the area is caused by the people and their activities and the resultant form is continually dependent on them.”

-Markus Miessen