designing people’s behavior

“My biggest fear is that architecture is necessarily a kind of totalitarian activity, a kind of prison, in that when you design a space you’re probably designing people’s behavior in that space. So the goal of our work is to make a mix, a mix of possible routes, a mix of alternate routes, alternate channels.” — Vito Acconci via BLDGBlog via The New York Times (“Space Oddity” by Aric Chen, September 18, 2005)