#architecture

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness ↗

— Alain de Botton

#architecture

The door handle is the handshake of the building. ↗

— Juhani Pallasmaa

#phenomenology #architecture

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. ↗

— James Stewart

#architect #architecture #back #because #college

Form follows function. ↗

— Louis Sullivan

#follows #form #function

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#cities #considerations #great #importance #informational

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#beauty #churches #every #feels #heart

As Toppers rose from her seat on a sofa to meet him, Storm realized that he was looking at an architectural marvel. She weighed less than a hundred pounds and was under five feet tall, but she was so top-heavy that Storm wondered how she kept herself from tumbling facedown when she reached out to shake his hand. ↗

— Richard Castle

#architecture

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes. ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

#architecture #design #architecture

Architectural romance: "Romance is not something that fits". An example; parts that are unlike those not exactly true, but also a car that just fits in the garage. ↗

— Leopold van de Ven

#car #example #fit #fitting-in #parts

Less is more! ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#architecture