“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.” IdeasEndsWholeIndividualCommunityNumbersBuildingExpressionAreasConcernGardenImportanceRelationStructureNotionArchitecturePlanningGreat MenPrimeGood Life Author:Lewis Mumford
“If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that's up to them. I feel I'm making architecture. I believe the building comes into being as soon as it's drawn.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsBelieveIdeasI BelieveBuildingExpressionProjectsArchitectureDrawingNo IdeaArchitect Author:Lebbeus Woods
“Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!” YearsLooksBookDifferentEyeChurchFiveBuildingExpressionYears AgoStonesTwentiesIntelligentFormerClockFriendlyTowers Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.” IfsPersonsSoulFacesIndividualCompanyBuildingDivineExpressionOriginalsFoundationMusicalIndividualityRichesMannersPerceiveToneCharmPeculiar Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“That's one of my little expressions. I never really studied acting so I kind of kiddingly talk about "building your circle" and "mooding up," because I really didn't learn any technique.” KindLittlesActingBuildingExpressionTechniqueCircles Author:Susan Sarandon