{"author":"Annabelle Selldorf","author_id":"Annabelle+Selldorf","total_quotes":6,"quotes":[{"text":"I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.","author":"Annabelle Selldorf","tags":["beautiful","quality","space "],"id":226999,"author_id":"Annabelle+Selldorf"},{"text":"Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.","author":"Annabelle Selldorf","tags":["success","building","aging "],"id":241339,"author_id":"Annabelle+Selldorf"},{"text":"There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.","author":"Annabelle Selldorf","tags":["technology","i am","reading "],"id":277154,"author_id":"Annabelle+Selldorf"},{"text":"The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.","author":"Annabelle Selldorf","tags":["good","eye","secret "],"id":288891,"author_id":"Annabelle+Selldorf"},{"text":"When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.","author":"Annabelle Selldorf","tags":["rules","free","people "],"id":355327,"author_id":"Annabelle+Selldorf"},{"text":"Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.","author":"Annabelle Selldorf","tags":["quality","mysterious "],"id":462810,"author_id":"Annabelle+Selldorf"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}