Antoine Predock
Antoine Predock
Antoine Predockis an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Antoine Predock is the Principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC. The studio was established in 1967. Predock attended the University of New Mexico and later received his Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
CountryUnited States of America
architecture body cities creating episodic moves occur personal sort within
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.
architecture dad except knew lived time word
I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.
evolved
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
baggage beginnings clear pay power winds
My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me.
governed nurse plant prime study sustenance
The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops.
amazing cars compared connection experience felt few journey machine motorcycle moving romantic sounds time touch true visceral
The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.
experience fish gathering moving school
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'
design expressed feeds informs isolate life work
Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.
long landscape architecture
The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.
technology thinking landscape
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
intellectual architecture
Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.
discipline intellectual environmental
I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. Its an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.
america venice lines
It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.
dad thinking engineering
I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.