#architect

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. ↗

— Luis Barragan

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Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#architecture #art #atmosphere #being #consciously

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ↗

— Daniel Burnham

#aim #aim high #big #diagram #die

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. ↗

— Alexander Jackson Davis

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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. ↗

— Ted Dexter

#architects #cracks #frequently #houses #i

Our sadness won’t 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 encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #happiness #life #melancholy #sadness

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired... Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov) ↗

— Tom McDonough

#architecture

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#delicacy #detail #english #great #light

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#applied #architecture #could #formula #logic

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#architecture #college #columbia #drive #i