“The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.” ThinkingWorldLastsDangerCreatingFairsArchitectureParksThemeSuperficialCivilisationPrecursorTheme Parks Author:Sufjan Stevens
“The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new ...design science for the post-petroleum era.” TechnologyDesignWindWasteCreatingBasesProductionsArchitectureErasPostsHousingEcologicalPetroleumUtilizationFood Production Author:John Todd
“It would be great if we had our own personal force fields. Just imagine creating your own architecture in your room. Buildings. You wouldn't have to spend all that time saving your money for that second house. You'd simply push a button and have as many houses as you want.” IfsWantWould BeHouseForceRoomsImagineFieldsBuildingCreatingArchitectureSavingButtonsYour RoomForce Fields Author:Michio Kaku
“Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.” ArtRealStoriesFilmFormFictionPureCreatingHappeningsTheaterArchitectureNarrativeCinemaFilmmakingSculptureReal ThingsArt HistoryCulminationCelluloid Author:George Hickenlooper
“I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with.” PeopleFactsEnvironmentDesignProductsCreatingArchitectureBrandsOnlineLove MakingWeb DesignCreating Things Author:Christopher Bailey
“Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But creating a monumental work of architecture, or writing a great symphony, is something else. It's a higher order of creation.” PeopleWayWritingArtOrderInfluenceCreationHigherCreatingBiggerArchitectureCartoonSymphonyInfluencing People Author:Jim Woodring
“In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.” WorldWayKindDifferentSometimesEarthFormCertainGroupsConditionsMaterialsCreatingPatternsArchitectureAuthenticityRelevantNobilityScarceTextilesMaterialityHybridity Author:David Adjaye
“Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.” CausesSpaceCreatingArchitectureDisasterArchitectMasterpiece Author:Jean Nouvel