164 quotes found
“Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.”
“Our sadness wont be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to ...”
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer...”
“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.”
“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 the edge of town.”
“They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.”
“I don't know what London's coming to the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”
“I have to tell you about these things from the past, because they are so important. The really important things usually lie in the distant past. And until you know about them, if you'll forgive my ...”
“The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has...”
“Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.”
“That NASA was involved suggests that L.A. was considered so alien both to police officers and to scientists that it resembled the landscape of another world. There is Mars, there is the moon, and t...”
“Mason was a first-rate spatial voyeur, an autodidact of architectural exteriors.”
“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them...”
“It may well be that what we have hithertounderstood as architecture, and what we arebeginning to understand of technology, areincompatible disciplines. The architect whoproposes to run with technol...”
“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 ab...”
“Im relieved to seethat even brilliant physicists make mistakes.Kohler looked over. What do you mean?Whoever wrote that note made a mistake. That column isnt Ionic. Ionic columns are uniform in widt...”
“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.”
“It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it...”
“Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.”
“Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.”
