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“When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.”

Trying Form Quality Design Building Depth Site Sensuous

Book:Architektur denken

Source: Architektur denken

“What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.”

Trying Art Form Building Shapes Construction

Author:Peter Zumthor

“Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.”

Feelings Form Emotion Building Artistic Building Up Dynamism

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”

Beautiful Form Song Growth Acceptance Building Creating Endless Allowing Destroying Pulling Chasing

Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.”

Beautiful Form Nature Building Materials Creating Destroying Pulling Chasing Particles

Book:My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage”

Matter Whole Form Space Modern Building Perspective Elements Relation Posts Relate Planes Conventions Rooted Irrational Routes Angle Unlimited Cages Ambiguous Implied Coordinates Baroque

Author:Charles Jencks

“When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can't make their own beds.”

Men Humans Stills Together Moving Form Can Do Powerful Cities Objects Building Wall Bed Flying Noise Empires Buttons Nails Floating Screws Tin Moving Parts Tin Cans

Author:Craig Stone

“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.”

Men Made Ends Form Technology Modern Century Building Lows Architecture Tall Architect Doomed Twentieth Century Dilemma Calculations Concentrating Patron Tall Buildings

Author:Martin Filler

“But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.”

Way Stories School Form Joy Order Mystery Students Building Monsters Encounters Tragic Paradox Faculty Heroic Entity Mystical Combining Corridors Alumni

Author:Stephen L. Carter

“How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.”

Form Purpose Successful Plans Objects Building Materials Degrees Accomplish Designer Broads Instruction Strokes Assembly Straightforward Surrogates Building Materials

Book:No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence

Source: No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence

“Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.”

“As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are documenting the sacred buildings of Calvinism. Calvinism rejects all forms of art and therefore never developed its own architecture. The buildings we photograph originate directly from this purely economical thinking.”

Thinking Art Said Form Building Sacred Photograph Architecture Ideology Rejects Calvinism

Author:Bernd Becher

“A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.”

Giving Feels Soul Light Form Fall Mystery Building Infinite Silent Glasses Architecture Gothic True Religion Colored Glass

Author:Madame de Stael

“The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.”

Play Shows Action Form Stage Movement Building Drama Tables Boxes Trials Agendas Executives Sequence Jury Reserved Exit Benches Entrances Courtroom Aquariums Elizabethan

Author:Shana Alexander

“I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.”

Thinking Mind I Can Ideas Form Imagination Brain Gone Building Products Faults Finals Improvement Invention Devices Concrete New Ideas My Imagination

Author:Nikola Tesla

“In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.”

Humans Form Emotion Building Demand Boxes Architecture Human Emotions

Author:Kenzo Tange

“I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear.”

People Ideas Form Building Wander Narrative Epic

Author:Lucas Neff

“I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.”

Wanted Form Building Shapes Female Dresses Curves Craftsman Female Form

Author:Christian Dior

“Buildings are forms of performances.”

Form Building Performances

Author:Rafael Vinoly

“Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.”

Form Technology Modern Possibility Building Creating Significant Urban

Author:Kenneth Frampton

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”

Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

“. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .”

Way Made Facts Form Building Models Useless Shed Pointing

Author:Sylvia Pankhurst

“The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.”

Form House Class Economy Building Building Houses

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.”

People Life Writing Real Form Speak Differences Building Drama Scene Property Series Drawing Real Life Dialogue Narrative Dramatic Composer Reporters Lit Cinematographers

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.”

People Thinking Art Shows Body Wanted Form Chance Building Sculpture Showing Off Body Building

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty.”

People Form Individual Community Religious Effort Liberty Rights Building Concern Concerned Catholic Committed Discrimination Unjust Good Will Rejecting Religious Liberty Safeguarding

Author:Pope Francis

“Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.”

“If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row of file cabinets is ordered. What we recognize and love is the same kind of pattern we see in every face, the pattern of our own life form. The same principles apply to buildings that apply to mollusks, birds or trees. Architecture is the play of patterns derived from nature and ourselves.”

Ifs Kind Play Light Faces Form Order Love Is Principles Tree Building Bird And Love Patterns Architecture Files Cabinets Light Up Mollusks

Book:The Old Way of Seeing

Source: The Old Way of Seeing

“I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be coherence between form and values in our society, as in thinking about a city and building one.”

Thinking Shows Form Artist Values Cities Building Activity Our Society Coherence

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.”

“We're not talking about an elite art form from the price point of view. We have a building in L.A. that is incredibly open, exciting, inviting, and all that, and there's no reason for this music not to be part of everybody's everyday life.”

Art Reason Form Views Talking Building Exciting Everyday Point Of View No Reason Elites Everyday Life Not Talking Inviting

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I realized very quickly that I was interested in the social ramifications of form making. So buildings became the vehicle and fulfilled that thing. That satisfied me when I produced them. I decided this is what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.”

World Way Art Wanted School Form Social Produce Building Decided Architecture I Realized Satisfied Vehicle Fulfilled Art School Ramifications

Author:David Adjaye

“Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the ones with the ideas that move beyond the organization's established practice, ideas they can form into visions. The right places are the integrative environments that support innovation, encourage the building of coalitions and teams to support and implement visions. The right times are those moments in the flow of organizational history when it is possible to reconstruct reality on the basis on accumulated innovations to shape a more productive and successful future.”

Source: Change Masters

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.”

Men Writing Book Form Found House Plans Building Materials Writing A Book

Book:An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island : and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

Source: An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island : and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

“I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.”

Thinking World Way Form Term Television Building Materials Source Drama Unique Complicated Storytelling Dense

Author:Chris Albrecht

“Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.”

Form Democracy Building Imperialism Imposition

Author:Lech Walesa

“I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.”

People Years Together Form Building Mice Small Things Geometric

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).”

Form Spirit Behinds Missing Building Psychological Manifestation Poetic Historian Architect Viewpoints

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer

“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!”

Men Ideas Form Purpose Building Integrity Being True Howard Roark

Author:Ayn Rand

“Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.”

Thinking Feels Matter Form Consciousness Building Machines Scientist Dedicated Laboratory Captured Matter Of Time

Book:Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

Source: Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

“It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.”

“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.”

People Form Space Share Fashion Building Development Architecture Furniture Procedures Tactile

Author:Donna Karan

“I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced me not just to being a full-time traveler, which I was, but he was also really very interested in history and art and continued to open my eyes up to regional history; less splashy histories. He was interested in historical societies and stuff like that. He introduced me to a way of looking at the way communities form that is the foundation for the book that I've just finished writing that has to do with what I see as effective community-building wherever I've been traveling.”

Way Writing Art Book Eye Form Stuff Community Building Grew Foundation Historical Finished Managers Going Out Traveler Community Building History And Art

Author:Dar Williams