#architect

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#become #building #draw #frightening #lines

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#almost #architect #house #i #jewel

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#architecture #been #interest #most #photography

But the building's identity resided in the ornament. ↗

— Louis Sullivan

#building #identity #ornament #resided

I do not think that when in a hotel you have to feel “at home”, on the contrary, you have to get the feeling that you are definitely elsewhere… ↗

— Aurelio Vazquez Duran

#hotel #home

We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through a comprehensive program that included above all else the construction of 'situations' -- defined in 1958 as moments of life 'concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a play of events' -- but that also necessary entailed the supersession of philosophy, the realization of art, the abolition of politics, and the fall of the 'spectacle-commodity economy. ↗

— Tom McDonough

#architecture

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

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buildings #doing #duty #first #goodness

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ↗

— John Ruskin

#builder #great #only #painter #person