The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something – a form – in common with it.

Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the...

After the Enterprise Services Architecture, your applications world will be made from apps by us based on these services, apps from ISVs…and apps you build yourself.

I have always been very interested in historic architecture. It’s just got a rich history from the famous garden district to the oak lined streets.

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving – rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone in an apartment house, square and white like a block of tofu, on...

Software architecture is the set of design decisions which, if made incorrectly, may cause your project to be cancelled.

Di bulan April 1978, di Aiglemont, Gouviuex, Prancis sebuah seminar diadakan oleh Aga Khan untuk membahas arsitektur Islam. Banyak pembicaraan menyesali hilangnya “ciri Islam” dalam kota dan bangunan baru di Timur Tengah kini. Hanya seorang...

[The checks] will cost a fortune and point again to the dubious business decision to have such extravagant architecture.

The rigidity of a bottle’s form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

Classical Revival,” he said. It was yet another display of his seemingly unending knowledge that both made her proud and made her feel very small. Maybe if she had gone to college she would have...

Cheops’ Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long?Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don’t much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone...

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It’s not your garden, it’s not a park – it’s a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the...

We have defined Oracle Fusion architecture, certified all Oracle applications on our world-class Oracle Fusion middleware, which includes a set of mature tools that are being used to develop the Oracle Fusion applications.

Abe said something interesting. He said that because everyone’s so poor these days, the ’90s will be a decade with no architectural legacy or style- everyone’s too poor to put up new buildings. He said...

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found...

Je soutiens l’idée que dans notre société, les pauvres sont doublement punis par les architectes. Une première fois parce qu’ils sont privés de maison, et la deuxième fois parce que quand on la leur donne,...

We want to . . . create a building that reflects the architecture of the city and the hospital’s faith-based heritage.

Architect without Pencil is like Rock-star without Guitar.

The ideal architect should be a man of letters, a skillful draftsman, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of...

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one...

We think that Windows 2000 is the right architecture, but it is a complex product that likely will have some level of bugs and refinement that will have to occur after it is initially deployed.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds,...

Architecture is what nature cannot make.Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature – art can...

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

I want each of you to go through life making the most of your individuality. Like it or not, you will go out into the real world and be treated as an adult. Adults show...

For me, it does not ‘miss’ if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful...

…architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by the crisp borders, sharp corners, neat railings, and machine-polished textures that define the...

In einem unablässigen Prozess von Aufbau und Verfall würden Bauwerke erscheinen und verschwinden, sie würden aufeinander, auseinander oder ineinander errichtet werden. Sie würden miteinander kämpfen, um sich anschließend zu vermählen und ungeheuerliche Nachkommen hervorzubringen. Kein...

Indeed, “brute force” solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out how to build arches… and virtually all our buildings today use...

Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture … Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you’re gonna get.

Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.

Function First

The starting point for the master bedroom was the architecture. We reorganized the whole space, and we knew that we were going to paint the woodwork in that room pink, which is quite unusual, but...

The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the...