“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” MatterWholeFormSpaceModernBuildingPerspectiveElementsRelationPostsRelatePlanesConventionsRootedIrrationalRoutesAngleUnlimitedCagesAmbiguousImpliedCoordinatesBaroque Author:Charles Jencks
“I don't like doing action movies. They're not that interesting... it's fun to do the physical element but the really fun stuff, like running into exploding buildings, they won't let you do. There's too much money riding on you not getting hurt. But yes, there's something exhilarating in just sitting on a beach with somebody having a real conversation. There's something exhilarating about being open and honest.” RealRunningActionFunStuffHurtInterestingToo MuchHonestBuildingConversationElementsSittingBeachRidingExhilaratingAction MovieExplodingGetting HurtFun StuffReal Conversation Author:Channing Tatum
“On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.” IfsDifferentSeemsCertainRealizingSpaceLevelsBuildingElementsUltimateTownsEndlessBlockVarietyCombinationConstituentsBuilding BlocksPuzzlingGeometric Author:Christopher Alexander
“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.” ThinkingGivingSeemsStuffBehindsPiecesBuildingElementsTownsStructureBlockRepeatsFabricBuilding Blocks Author:Christopher Alexander
“I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.” IfsWantRealEndsCrazyStreetsBuildingElementsDifficultyCome UpColourShopsLocationAvenuesOutlinesBeing Crazy Author:Jean Dubuffet
“One of man's basic concerns is a house - a place to find protection from the rain and elements. But a house can be much more than a building. It is the social context of his family life -\-\ the place where he loves and shares with this closest to him.” MenHouseSocialShareBuildingElementsRainConcernProtectionClosestFamily Life Author:Pedro Arrupe
“Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.” WantShouldActionFaithWaterBuildingElementsStonesBasesFoundationVery GoodFishesGood Actions Author:Owen Feltham
“The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.” IfsWorldWantFeelsFirstsHumansMeanRealLawFantasyThis WorldBuildingElementsAvailablePhysicsExplanationGravityBehaviourLaws Of PhysicsHuman Behaviour Author:Trudi Canavan
“Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.” MatterStarsSubjectsBuildingSourceElementsCoreBlockChemistryChemicalsBuilding Blocks Author:Peter Atkins
“When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.” WayKindEmotionAudienceBuildingElementsProgramStandingSensationsCheerMost AmazingSportsmanFootwork Author:Johnny Weir
“Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.” IfsKnowsMadeImaginationNaturalKnow HowBuildingMaterialsProductsInvolvedElementsMethodArchitectureTraditionalArchitectConventionalComponentsAvant GardeNatural Elements Author:Martin Filler
“The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?” PeopleNextWaitingBlackWhiteDoorsCrimeBuildingElementsScaredBlack PeopleKillersLegislation Author:Tupac Shakur