#architecture

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

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#exterior #house #interior #outside #part

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. ↗

— Michael Graves

#around #been #centered #dialogue #idea

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

#certain #color #energetic #great #making

Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge." We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they looked like fleas. The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling—not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam's discharge vents. "Seven hundred feet tall," I said. "Built in the 1930s." "Five million cubic acres of water," Thalia said. Graver sighed. "Largest construction project in the United States." Zoe stared at us. "How do you know all that?" "Annabeth," I said. "She liked architecture." "She was nuts about monuments," Thalia said. "Spouted facts all the time." Grover sniffled. "So annoying." "I wish she were here," I said. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#grover-underwood #percy-jackson #thalia-grace #zoe-nightshade #architecture

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

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#architecture #arrived #filled #go #i

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#architecture #doing #focusing #great #great work

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#building #deeper #foundation #laid #loftier

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. ↗

— Tony Scott

#business #describing #enterprise #fully #functionality