#architecture

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#delicacy #detail #english #great #light

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#applied #architecture #could #formula #logic

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#architecture #college #columbia #drive #i

For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education. ↗

— Roy Landau

#education #university #architecture

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architect #architecture #art #astonishingly #build

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#aesthetic #almost #always #architecture #aspect

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#art #how #space #waste

Architecture is invention. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#invention

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#ever #filmmaking #interest #job #me

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#technology #architecture