Spatial Agency Quotes

“Many of these approaches are still around, but have become submerged into, and emasculated by, governmental policies; thus issues such as community consultation have become a tick box exercise rather than an opportunity for the production of a radically different conception of the built environment.”
― Jeremy Till, Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

“Social space is intractably political space, in so much as people live out their lives in this space, and so one has to be continuously alert to the effects of that space on those lives.”
― Nishat Awan, Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

“The alternative is always caught in the shadow of the thing that it posits itself against. The result is that the alternative is inevitably defined by the norm, whilst the norm remains largely undisturbed by the irritant it overshadows.”
― Nishat Awan, Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

“Thus the continuation of the master tutor and willing servant students, the privileging of the visual, the inculcation of absurd modes of behaviour (sleep deprivation, aggressive defensiveness, internal competition), the raising of individuals on to pedestals, all these and more self-perpetuate in schools of architecture around the world, a strange form of interbreeding with tutors passing the architectural gene to students who in turn become tutors who perform the same rituals.”
― Nishat Awan, Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture