#architecture

Trying to design or reclaim places is, therefore, rather like trying to make or modify life itself. In this effort, it is wisest to adopt the gentle patient manner of an environmental midwife, while rejecting utterly the machine-driven arrogance of some environmental equivalent to a genetic engineer. By such gentle means places might flourish again, but also the world might become less threatened. ↗

— Edward Relph

#architecture

Googie architecture could...be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in the shape of hot dogs, ice-cream stands in the shape of ice-cream cones. There are obvious examples of virtual sameness trying, by dint of exhibitionism, to appear unique and different from their similar commercial neighbors. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#architecture

A house is a machine for living in. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#house #living #machine

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#create #function #objects #order #put

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#comes #europe #japan #lightness #new

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#architecture #behind #believe #budget #city

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #different #different way #give #i

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #artist #build #buildings #deliberately

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. ↗

— Maya Lin

#thought #warmth

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #because #harder #make #me