#arch

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#books #engaged #losers #lost #people

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#cities #considerations #great #importance #informational

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search. ↗

— John Templeton

#become #eager #how #humble #increasingly

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#effort #history #human #human effort #language

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#happiness #search #sources #unhappiness

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#i #i think #monarchy #much #press

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

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#inhabited #sculpture