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  • All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Space  
  • Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

    Art   Badass   Bad Ass  
    What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12
  • Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  • Each new situation requires a new architecture.

  • Architecture begins where engineering ends.

    Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.
  • 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.
  • I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Design  
  • The geometry reveals five development direction for applications (each with endless possibilities); dividing, dwelling, trestle, fenestration and artistic installation. I find these enabled designs so reflective of an ever-changing world where contextual factors and technological resources are shifting definitions of architecture, design, and the traditional boundaries between disciplines.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

  • All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

    Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications
  • Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

    Beauty   God   Daughter  
    'The Holy State and the Profane State' (1642) bk. 3 'Of Building'
  • People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

    Badass   Home   Mean  
  • The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

  • You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

    Speech at Mansion House, London, 1 Dec. 1987
  • In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

  • All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

  • If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

    "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.
  • Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

    Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”
  • Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

    Funny   Money   Badass  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.17, University of Georgia Press
  • Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.29, Wildside Press LLC
  • Home is where you hang your architect.

    Badass   Home   Bad Ass  
  • We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

    Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker
  • Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Space  
    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alexander von Vegesack, Matthias Kries, Vitra Design Museum (1998). “Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno”, Skira - Berenice
  • I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

    Badass   Bad Ass   People  
  • Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

    Hope   Badass   Bad Ass  
  • The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

    El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”
  • By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

    Art   Class   Symbolism  
  • Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

    Funny   Art   Badass  
    New York Times 27 Dec. 1964, p. 9E
  • It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  • Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

    Art   Badass   Bad Ass  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics
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