Jarenlang kwam ik bij het boodschappen doen langs een huis dat weliswaar een van de lelijkste gebouwen was dat ik ooit heb gezien, maar me ook meer over architectuur heeft geleerd dan menig meesterwerk.

Seaside Studies,” will perceive that science excites poetry rather than extinguishes it. And whoever will contemplate the life of Goethe will see that the poet and the man of science can co-exist in equal activity....

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the...

What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian’s. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when...

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its altering realms of darkness and light than are the brightly and evenly lit streets of today! The imagination and daydreaming...

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

The reason for the difference between the architectural and engineering ‘climate’, so to speak, is very complex. It is partly a matter of terminology, partly a matter of historical accident, and the consequent training of...

I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the...

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a ‘problem solver’.

The unadorned gentleman’s suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

I think Ms. Monroe’s architecture is extremely good architecture.

The amount of computing resources put into place with a grid architecture can be enormous. Companies get to add the equivalent of a couple thousands PCs and that added horsepower that they do not have...

The network is so flexible, and it’s such an open network in terms of competition and architecture that if anyone began to flex some power, someone else would step in to compete with them.

Steiner’s teachings begin and end with man but in between is humankind, the earth, the cosmos. Architecture is the same: it too begins and ends with individual man, with everything else within it.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their...

One [project of Teddy Cruz’s] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church zoned for three units and carefully arrays on it twelve affordable housing units,...

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Bathrooms that traded mirrors for glass walls invited prurience on occasion, but they also drew the inhabitant’s gaze away from himself toward an increasingly threatened nature.

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.

When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

They are going to be welcome improvements. It is such a nice, historical piece of architecture. It will be nice to have a bathroom comparable to the rest of the dollhouse.

To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other…Kandinsky dreamed of: ‘a great city built according...

For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients called “kosmos,” that is to say ornate, since it...

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order–that windows, doors and other details have...

The white façades of the villas and apartment houses were like blocks of time that had crystallised beside the road.

All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

Kilstelėjusi akis išvystu artėjant katedrą. Stabteliu su nuostaba, tarytum šį pastatą matyčiau pirmą kartą gyvenime. Juokingi mes – keliaujame tūkstančius kilometrų, kad patirtume kažką stebuklinga: kelias nuvirtusias kolonas, apgriuvusią tvirtovę, išblukusią freską, kurią būtina apžiūrėti,...

These comments recall Turkle’s distinction between two kinds of “transparency” in technological cultures. Modernist transparency is the notion that users can and should have access to the inner workings of a technology. It evokes the...

Foundational design principles regarding aesthetics, symbolism and meaning of place were for the old-timer carpenter, simply routine.Unfortunately, these principles began to lose their footing in the late 1800s, when building practices shifted toward more commercial...

C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.

L’architecture éveille en l’homme des états d’ me.. La t che des architectes est de préciser ces états d’ mes.

Sunset’s the best time to take a stroll down Mouffetard, the ancient Via Mons Cetardus. The buildings along it are only two or three stories high. Many are crowned with conical dovecotes. Nowhere in Paris...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

He’s been calling a lot of the plays over the last couple of years. This is his architecture, this is his strategy that Sun is playing. He has really put a lot of energy and...

It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard the legend that the Venetians were half human, half beast.She knew that this...

The primary contention is that man consists of body, soul and spirit and that each of these needs to be acknowledged and satisfied in the experience of architecture as in every other way.

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and...

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

The good thing about standards is, almost anybody we buy has a similar architecture to what we’re marching toward.

I crumpled up a piece of paper and threw it in the garbage. Then I quickly snatched it out, because hell, I’d just tossed out a Frank Gehry knockoff. What you call trash, I call...

They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.