#architect

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#architect #asked #beijing #breathe #certainly

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#architects #beyond #deaths #live #their

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? ↗

— Bernard Levin

#contemplate #dog #equipped #happened #only

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#architecture

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

— Norman Foster

#dreamers #inspiration #life #architecture

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser. ↗

— Gates McFadden

#architecture #gardening #hairdresser #i #i do

It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard the legend that the Venetians were half human, half beast.She knew that this could not be true, but in the swirling fog of this hellish city she almost believed it. The creatures seemed to stare at her down their warped noses from their blank and hollow eyes. And overlord of all was the winged lion - he was everywhere, watching from every plaque or pennant, ubiquitous and threatening. ↗

— Marina Fiorato

#bubonic-plague #historical-romance-fiction #medical-history #venice #architecture

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. ↗

— George Konrád

#trauma #war #architecture

...it is necessary to understand the historical and aesthetical process of cultures involved in the configuration of what we call Latin America. On the other hand we must find out how the cultures mixed and what their mixtures produced. The main stream is still the great history of Western art, which has set aside the artistic expression of other cultures, even though those continue to influence the painting, sculpture and architecture of South America. ↗

— Maria de Los Angeles Taberna

#architecture

Architecture is invention. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#invention