18 Quotes by Christoph Grafe

Each reader appropriates the book that he or she reads. The message so carefully transmitted by the writer always reaches the reading audience in a filtered, distorted and altered form.

Is a complex, unconventional narrative better suited to exploring the play of conceptual possibilities than a simple conventional one?

Agreement in a dialogue can lead to a cul-de-sac.

...it is impossible to lay bare and shelter simultaneously...

The architect thinks of his client and builds a house like a machine, in order to be absolutely modern and retain only the most topical (and forward-looking) elements of the modern; the writer thinks of himself and writes a story as one way of understanding the modern tumult and all that preceded it. Together, they stamp the two sides of a single coin, an amulet for us to wear as we confront the future.

The descriptive nature of literature, after all, is far removed from the prescriptive nature that typifies the design disciplines.

Architects can always make good use of vacant land, regardless of the horror that brought it into being: it is ruthless being that is supposed to make life possible again.

A house that is unheimlich is a house where you lose yourself, lose your way, literally or figuratively.

It is these guardians of the medium who have always clipped architecture’s wings are the moment the buds were about to burst open and who have mercilessly pruned back the roots of the medium so that they would not break open the concrete pavement.