#architecture

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

— Michael Graves

#around #been #centered #dialogue #idea

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#beings #board #drawing #human #human beings

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#again #architecture #course #fashion #go

Architecture in general is frozen music. ↗

— Friedrich von Schelling

#frozen #general #music

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

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. ↗

— Harry von Zell

#been #charged #cost #designer #mission

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

#city #concentrate #daily #daily work #functions

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