Jeremy Till > Quotes

“It started to go wrong quite early, my relationship with Architecture”
― Jeremy Till, Architecture Depends

“… architects are not acting for themselves but on behalf of others, and this means acting ethically. It is to ethics that we now turn.”
― Jeremy Till, Architecture Depends

“architecture is open sources beyond the direct control of the architect.”
― Jeremy Till, Architecture and Participation

“Many of these approaches are still around, but have become submerged into, and emasculated by, governmental policies; thus issues such as community consultation have become a tick box exercise rather than an opportunity for the production of a radically different conception of the built environment.”
― Jeremy Till, Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

“… a move from the idea of an architect as expert problem-solver to that of architect as citizen sense-maker; a move for a reliance on the impulsive imagination of the long genius to that of collaborative ethical imagination, from clinging towards notion of total control a relaxed acceptance of letting go.”
― Jeremy Till

“… that architecture’s dependency, far from being its weakness, becomes its opportunity, with the architect acting as open-minded listener and feet-footed interpreter, collaborating in the realization of other people’s unpolished visions…. this model of the architect as interpretive agent…”.”
― Jeremy Till