“If you want freedom break away from the normal conventions. Become like a child, see things afresh, work more with your feelings than intellectual or rational thoughts, because they are fed or given form by others to make you one of them. Look how children paint, draw figures, how they see or put colours — They have nothing to do with absolute reality. Because reality is also an illusion. But your education and age has made you think that way. Reality is what you and others perceive externally and similarly. For example, how can form, colour, structure, order be accepted because historians says so. Break away from all the rules. Forget history books. Go back to your inner perceptions. See things as if your are noticing them for the first time. Then only you will be able to do something of your own.” (3)

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(1) Zitat: Informationsbroschüre, Willkommen auf dem Vitra Campus, ©Vitra, 2018
(2) Balkrishna Doshi »Architektur für den Menschen«, 30.03. — 08.09.2019, Vitra Design Museum
(3) Balkrishna Doshi, handwritten note, may 27/89, vastushilpa foundation, 078-4020

 
 

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