#architecture

It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#creation #nature #poetry #architecture

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #architecture

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#art #building #certain #certain point #decided

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture. ↗

— James C. Snyder

#art #midieval #architecture

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate. ↗

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#architecture #cosplay #design #japan #manga

Man in his upended street must know he is becoming a mere numerical item of convenience; on the way to being a thing. His inherent instinct for love and beauty is not only becoming suspect but, in spite of all intent, useless to society. He sees the human creature atrophy as he sees poverty of imagination in much "modern art," so-called. But it was Walt Whitman himself who raised the perpendicular hand to declare: "It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary." This is what is now coming forth in our architecture as in our life. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#architecture

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#library #architecture

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it). ↗

— Alain de Botton

#buildings #museums #architecture

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

#collaborate #creator #laws #look #nature

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#architecture #arts #most #slowly #soul