Looking for a Jeanne Gang quote
September 28, 2012 11:47 AM Subscribe
I'm looking for a quote by architect Jeanne Gang I read in an article about her last year, and my Google-fu is failing me. Help me, hivemind.
The quote goes something like:
I only like to design things that can be built. When you don't, you design a lot of wild ideas that can't be built. And that's not what I want to do.
That's roughly what I remember, but it's not exact. I cannot find the quote at all. I thought it was in the NY Times, but I can't find a match there. I seem to remember it was in a newspaper, and the article was published around when she was awarded a MacArthur last year. The article, as I recall, talked about Gang being a female architect in a male-dominated field and her design of the Aqua Tower in Chicago. The quote is in one of the final paragraphs.
I need to make a point in a presentation on design about the balance between aspirational design and practical design. But my Google-fu has come up with nothing. Maybe someone else can?
The quote goes something like:
I only like to design things that can be built. When you don't, you design a lot of wild ideas that can't be built. And that's not what I want to do.
That's roughly what I remember, but it's not exact. I cannot find the quote at all. I thought it was in the NY Times, but I can't find a match there. I seem to remember it was in a newspaper, and the article was published around when she was awarded a MacArthur last year. The article, as I recall, talked about Gang being a female architect in a male-dominated field and her design of the Aqua Tower in Chicago. The quote is in one of the final paragraphs.
I need to make a point in a presentation on design about the balance between aspirational design and practical design. But my Google-fu has come up with nothing. Maybe someone else can?
Response by poster: That's it. Thanks so much (alice)!
posted by dw at 12:00 PM on September 28, 2012
posted by dw at 12:00 PM on September 28, 2012
I think there was actually a post on the blue about her a year or so ago that might somehow link that same article. And here it is. The quote you're looking for, the same listed by (alice) is a pull quote on the post.
posted by LionIndex at 12:00 PM on September 28, 2012
posted by LionIndex at 12:00 PM on September 28, 2012
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posted by (alice) at 11:58 AM on September 28, 2012