Best building & materials Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.”

Soul Moments Dream Together Grows Fantasy Building Materials Habit Luxury Idle Our Dreams Castles Enchantment Steep

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures.”

Issues Fire Effects Design Building Materials Industry Method Structure Terrorism Protection Traditional Code Tragic Construction Steel Infrastructure Evaluate Construction Industry

Author:Craig Scott

“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

“I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.”

Remember Building Materials Rivers Photograph Radio Throwing Thread Mud Floating Carrots Eyelashes Milwaukee Styrofoam

Book:William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique

Source: William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique

“The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.”

Wells Tree Building Materials Citizens Stones Seeds Construction Concrete Bricks Truthfulness

Author:Le Corbusier

“The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing.”

Modern Building Materials Industry Spread Oil Agriculture Civilisation Rubber Processing Mining Refining Fertilizer Textiles

Book:Science in history

Source: Science in history

“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

“A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house”

House Building Materials Army Building Materials

Author:Socrates

“To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.”

Ifs Men Made Beautiful Space Building Materials Dance Architecture Made It One Man His Love Material Things

Author:Martha Graham

“What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.”

Needs I Can House Careers Plans Building Materials Wings Family Life Drafting

Author:Ice Cube

“We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.”

Needs Mind Heart Real Remember Progress Building Materials Development Heart And Mind

Author:Dalai Lama

“I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible. The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play.”

“A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.”

Wells Country States Values Building Materials Degrees Increase Woods Architecture Improvement Permanent Acquisition Ornaments Edifice

Book:Notes on the State of Virginia

Source: Notes on the State of Virginia

“How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.”

Doe Used Challenges Space Technology Building Materials Architecture Architect

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“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 winter oak... is very useful in buildings but when in a moist place it takes in water to its centre... and so it rots. The Turkey oak and the beech both... take in moisture to their centre and soon decay. White and black poplar, as well as willow, linden, and the agnus castus... are of great service from their stiffness... they are a convenient material to use in carving.”

Wells Use Black Water White Building Materials Winter Decay Centre Turkeys Convenient Oaks Carving Great Service Moisture Stiffness

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.”

“Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.”

Needs Difficult Building Materials Stones Structure Careful Architecture Block Falsehood Rude Rotten Adjustment

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.”

“Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.”

Way Looks Technology Environment Building Materials Significant Factors Enabling Raw Materials Significant Change

Author:Aaron Levie

“Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."”

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.”

World Children Soul Spiritual Religion Evil Parent Views Building Taught Materials Separation Justified Krishna Material World

Author:Mary Garden

“Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every station, all our building materials look the same, and all our clothes look the same. But I thought that it couldn't be that simple, because Arizona is not Minnesota. There is this other reality, which is a reality of landscape.”

Looks Done Reality America Simple Building Materials Clothes Stores Landscape Stations Arizona Downtown Minnesota Building Materials

Author:Cynthia Daignault

“When you're at the beginning of your career, there are a lot of, "I don't care about this," jobs that you take because it's about building your resume and building connections. There are so many factors that don't have anything to do with choosing for the material.”

Care Jobs Careers Building Materials Connections Don't Care Factors I Don't Care Resumes

Author:Billy Porter

“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

“And ultimately, it's good for all of us to have more original programming on the air. Business doesn't drive the creative. So, in identifying a project like Dovekeepers, looking at something like Extant and looking at Under the Dome, it was about falling in love with a piece of material, getting excited by the creative direction, hearing a vision, and getting excited about the potential for those projects and building the business model around it. And they're not all modeled the same way. Every one is different.”

Way Different Fall Vision Creative Pieces Air Building Materials Projects Models Originals Falling In Love Excited Hearing Programming Identifying Business Models Domes

Author:Nina Tassler

“This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.”

Ifs Want Given Half Support Building Materials Projects Evidence Resources Method Available Miles Statistics Dictatorship Scientific Evidence

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.”

People Dream Turns Economy Sadness Building Materials Broken Tasks Prosperity Broken Dreams

Author:Duane Elgin

“I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me.”

Kind Different Interesting Building Materials Weight Psychological Construction Carpenter Placement

Author:Julian Schnabel

“The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.”

“The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.”

Humans Country Loss Worst Building Materials Resources Infrastructure Human Resources

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“I consider both the West Bank and Gaza to be colonised, even though Gaza is not occupied in the same way that the West Bank is. The Israeli government and military control all goods that pass in or out of that area, and they have restricted employment and building material that would allow Palestinians to rebuild homes and structures that were destroyed by bombardment.”

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Author:Judith Butler

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