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  • Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.

    Book   Reading   Hands  
    Debra Ginsberg (2006). “Blind Submission: A Novel”, p.4, Crown
  • I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

    Funny   Beach   Hate  
  • A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

    "Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.
  • My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

  • Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

  • Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

    Funny   Art   Badass  
    New York Times 27 Dec. 1964, p. 9E
  • Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

    Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.81, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

    "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2007.
  • The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design, the garden itself also reflects a deeper set of cultural meanings and traditions. Whereas the English garden seeks to make only an aesthetic impression, the Japanese garden is both aesthetic and reflective. The most basic element of any Japanese garden design comes from the realization that every detail has a significant value.

    Art   Garden   House  
  • 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.

    Life   Mean   Men  
    Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”
  • Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

    "Home". Book by Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, and Julie V. Iovine, p. 43, 1993.
  • The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

    Witty   Badass   Mistake  
    The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.
  • Always beware an unsigned architectural design.

  • Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

    Wisdom   Ideas   Design  
  • Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

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