Architecture

General Information
One of Brad’s main hobbies/interests is architecture. He loves the works and styles of Frank Gehry, Jay Griffith, Jean Nouvel, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Lloyd Wright, Graft, Rem Koolhaas, Tadao Ando and Greene & Greene.

Brad is mostly into the Arts & Crafts and Bauhaus style.

Brad also collects designer chairs (Rietveld) and Tiffany lamps. He also likes to visit art museums i.e. the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Holland) and the Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain).

Quotes
“Intellectually, Pitt says he was attracted first to the Arts and Crafts style because of ‘its elegance of simplicity.‘ But he finds himself becoming more and more contemporary. ‘As I work my way through it, I have become a lover of all architecture,’ he says. ‘I am fascinated and obsessed with where it’s going. Like art and music, architecture reflects society and where society is heading.’ Besides Gehry, Pitt says he has “flipped” for Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas.”

“Part of what Pitt likes about architecture is the discovery. ‘There is that thing I love of an individual in a room finding a line — and by ‘line’ I mean an angle, something that interests them — and following it and seeing where it goes,’ he says, admitting that the collaborative aspect of filmmaking does not engage his intellect in the same way.” - USA Weekend 2003

“‘I don’t know what it is. Well, I do know a little bit what it is. I’ve always been a bit of a junkie for it. And it’s one of the few art forms that you can be inside and you can experience it by being smaller than it. And I have a strict belief that architecture has an ability to lift your soul. That we are susceptible by our surroundings. Like the imprisoned self. That would be the opposite. And that there are these people now who are leading us to a future and.. I will tell you the misperception, of architecture. Is that it’s all aesthetics and it’s really not aesthetics and when you sit with these guys, these masters like Gehry and Hadid..’” - Charlie Rose Show 2004

“Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas are my two favorites. MVRDV ( Dutch architects Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries ), ahhhh, some of my favorites! The voices are out there, and to the people who are putting money into new buildings, use these guys! What I love most about MVRDV are that these guys are completely redesigning how the masses are moving through the city ( Rotterdam ) and experiencing it. There’s this architect I just found out about named Stephen Holl ( New York ), who’s great. I’ve also been jonesing about Daniel Libeskind ( Berlin )” - Flaunt 2001

“Next I want to go to Barcelona and study the architecture of Gaudi. I’m interested in architecture, that’s what I originally went to college for.” - Film Review 1994

“He details London’s pleasures: the architecture [he particularly rates The History Museum, The Michelin Building and the exterior of Harrods].” Empire 1994

“It must be noted that the morning was spent conducting Pitt’s primary objective for this city; a tour of all the buildings designed by architect Charles Rennie MacKintosh, one of Pitt’s heroes.” - Rolling Stone 1994

“Pitt talks about his architectural tour of Glasgow, relating the similarities in the work of MacKintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright.” - Rolling Stone 1994

“His love of architecture and drawing is so consuming that he sketches continually in his spare time.” - Rolling Stone 1994

Brad’s favorites
Frank Gehry

Graft

Jay Griffith