#architect

私の場合、建築の情報を収集するのは、もっぱら、図書館よりむしろ古書店や大型書店であり、その習慣は現在でも続いています。これも恩師からの教えだと記憶していますが、本の購入は将来への投資だと考え、図書館で借りるよりも、生活費を切り詰めてでも購入することにしています。 また、その恩師が座右の銘として私たち学生に語っていた言葉も、建築の情報収集に臨む上で大切だと思いますので、以下に紹介します。それは、アメリカの建築史家・教育者であるターピン・バニスター（Turpin Bannister）の言葉です。建築家にとって歴史を学ぶ意味合いを語っています。 a）歴史は、建築家の研究室である b）歴史は、社会基盤となる技術をゆっくりと豊かにする役目をもつ c）歴史は、知見を広めてくれる d）歴史は、建築家を偉大な仕事へと導く e）歴史は、建築家に深さを与える どうでしょうか。何とも含蓄のある言葉ではありませんか。[53ページ] ↗

— 渡邉 研司

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I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint. And then there's the gardener who digs the hole in the ground, puts in the seed and waters it with his blood and sees what comes up. The gardener knows certain things. He's not completely ignorant. He knows whether he planted an oak tree, or corn, or a cauliflower. He has some idea of the shape but a lot of it depends on the wind and the weather and how much blood he gives it and so forth. No one is purely an architect or a gardener in terms of a writer, but many writers tend to one side or the other. I'm very much more a gardener. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#authors #creative-writing #gardner #writers #writing

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#between #cannot #exist #fully #i

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#architects #beyond #deaths #live #their

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#beautiful #beautiful things #business #hopefully #inspirational

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#arch #barrel #extended #inventors #romans

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t. ↗

— Norman Foster

#dreamers #inspiration #life #architecture

An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

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Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order--that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184) ↗

— Alain de Botton

#building #chaos #complexity #order #architecture