#arch

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. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#italy #page- #architecture

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies ↗

— Zaha Hadid

#architecture

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#favourite-books #inspirational #sad #soul-searching #wallflower

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #becomes #building #then

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #buildings #done #excluded #i

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#angles #being #being there #come #i

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#monarchical #prerogatives #sick

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#arose #art #became #course #marxism

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. ↗

— John F. Lehman, Jr.

#deep #enormous #era #new #new era

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. ↗