a very feminine architect

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.

A ceux qui, absorbés maintenant dans le problème de “la machine à habiter”, déclaraient que “l’architecture c’est servir”, nous avons répondu: “L’architecture c’est émouvoir”. Et nous avons été taxé de “poète”, avec dédain

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential – for as at present used, or designed, the world’s resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available...

He didn’t like religion, hadn’t liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

New streets should be Twitter friendly and be named with hashtags up front. I’d build a house on ‪#‎LoversLane‬.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity – with a capital “S” – is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life...

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more...

He who seeks truth, shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty, shall find vanity. He who seeks order, shall find gratification.He who seeks gratification, shall find disappointment. He who considers himself a servant of his...

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

When friends come to Rome in early summer to visit me I like to take them to the Pantheon during thunderstorms and stand them beneath the opening of the feathery, perfectly proportioned dome as rain...

For a brief period of time the American electric-sign industry looked beyond its most immediate market and collaborated with store designers and architects in creating a style which became known as ‘stream-line.’ Later it became...

From the fourteenth to the nineteenth century we have merely been expending the incalculable treasures discovered then and using up the great supply of energies gathered up to that time. Hence, modern history is the...

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all...

I think it’s deeper than architecture. Design has taken on a new importance in life.

There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers – the public taste corrupted by the Adams, I am obliged to comply with it.

For example, they recently had a piece on a character–I think his name was Ambrosio D’Urbervilles–whose “design statement” was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple cottonballs. He called it...

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy,...

With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In India, he charmed a powerful provincial family and ended up...

the financial architecture of the 21 st century, an architecture that is as modern as the markets.

Aldus Barnes, a structural engineer by training and member of the Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU) at Arup, has formed many successful collaborations and earned a prominent place for himself in architecture by adopting the language...

The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.

RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects...

Intel’s Core architecture will address the power gap in the server and desktop segments, and the larger, shared L2 cache will address memory bandwidth/latency issues related to Intel’s front side bus design.

He is fascinated by their lack of conventional hierarchy or structure and loves how the forces of capital have subverted plans to control and order space.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the...

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our timeIs becoming the architecture of the next time.

L’architecture arabe nous donne un enseignement précieux. Elle s’apprécie à la marche, avec le pied : c’est en marchant, en se déplaçant que l’on voit se développer les ordonnances de l’architecture. C’est un principe contraire...

A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing...

Jakarta telah menjadi sekadar tempat bertahan hidup, bukan tempat hidup yang mampu memberi arti keberadaan kepada penghuni yang tinggal di dalamnya.

Why should the entire architecture of agreements in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, and its cornerstone, the 1972 ABM treaty, be put under threat?

[The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Googie architecture could…be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in the shape of hot dogs, ice-cream stands in the shape of ice-cream cones....

To attempt to build up theories of art, or to form a new style, would be an act of supreme folly. It would be at once to reject the experiences and accumulated knowledge of thousands...

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.(on Elgar)

Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a means of getting from one place to another.

We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover...

The author meant it as a joke, Mr. Langdon. Ionic means containing ions—electrically charged particles. Most objects contain them.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

the only prospect which is really desirable or delightful, is that from the window of the breakfast-room […] where we meet the first light of the dewy day, the first breath of the morning air,...

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

I call architecture frozen music.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.