#architecture

A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology. ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

#design #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

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

It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over. ↗

— Max Barry

#committees #humour #architecture

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#believe #directed #i #i believe #i believe that

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

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#build #clients #i #order

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fantastic #imperfect #important #most #nevertheless