Rudofsky

Hometown: Zauchtl, Moravia

Occupation: Architect, Shoe/Fashion Designer, Painter, Philosopher, Curator, Author, Structural Engineer

Books: Are Clothes Modern, Architecture Without Architects, The Unfashionable Human Body, The Prodigious Builders, The Kimono Mind, Streets for People, Now I Lay Me Down To Eat

Life as a voyage, travel as a lifestyle.

Sure, all Japanese houses look humble to people who regard ostentation a civic virtue.

It is pointless for experts to discuss the finer points of residential architecture as long as we do not consider how its occupants sit, sleep, eat, bathe, wash themselves and want to dress.

Civilized people are anxious to avoid any permanent decoration; it would interfere with the rotation of fashions.

Coloration and ornament are chiefly stimulants to sexual selection.

We live in a shrinking world. Transitions are withering fast, customs are being displaced.

There is no proper model of shoes for all varieties of feet, unless we revert to the loosely fitting moccasin or sandal.

Wearing tight-fitting apparel has not only deformed our bodies, but has obscured our knowledge of them.

The older generation's disjointed feet and egg-sized bunions are nothing but a joyous tribute to the fashions of diabolical footwear.

I believe that in the arts and in architecture, the sensuous pleasures should come before the intellectual ones.

If I can open your eyes a little wider than their accustomed aperture; if I can make you observe without ethnic bias... you will look at your own environment with a more critical awareness.

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America’s First Reality Shoe Design Competition