#ture

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#cities #language #possiblity #walking #architecture

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#films #hollywood #architecture

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#architecture

The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #kate-daniels #las-colimas #magic-bites #styles

A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#integrity #people #architecture

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#taj-mahal #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

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation? ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#stairs #architecture

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