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.

Feminism, in its fullest meaning, enjoins the human race to establish zones of liberation, and literally to reshape the territorial definition of our patriarchal world, along with the social identities and injustices that those boundaries...

house progressive new plays in a setting inspired by the grand architecture and design of traditional 19th Century venues.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the animate and inanimate and back again. For this reason it is always incomplete,...

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today’s blind architecture – a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected by our surroundings even when they are made of vinyl and...

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone...

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

I confront the city with my body; my legs measure the length of the arcade and the width of the square; my gaze unconsciously projects my body onto the facade of the cathedral, where it...

…In Jack Nasar’s research on American’s taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.

Martin explains that working with architects in the Arup SoundLab has led to improved collaborations: ‘We can relate to architects much better. If we are brought on board at the ideal time, which is if...

We must change life,’ the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through a comprehensive program that included above all else the construction of...

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it...

There is a huge opportunity with Monterey and Merced. The Intel architecture has the potential to displace the proprietary, RISC, and mainframe architectures that have been kings for so long.

The circus tent is not architecture.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Light must always win.

The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and...

A man doesn’t borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn’t borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.

The future line of products based on this architecture will generate more revenues than our previous lines of products. We have 5,800-plus customers, and we believe it will be easy to get adoption.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern the origin, cause, and nature of subterranean things; for then he will be...

It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]

That’s how they’re different.

Our stuff looks tinny compared to it.” At a time when commercial values are systematically corrupting the museum – one of civilized society’s most elevating experiences – the example of Kahn, among the most courageous...

History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on his tunic and his flat cap. But in the end the...

A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not linear, like language. Compared to the fluidity of words, a building is atrociously...