“In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.” WayTryingFirstsArtPrinciplesDesignBuddhismBalanceArchitectureMartial ArtsBalancedArchitecture And Design Author:Frederick Lenz
“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.” WayShowsSpiritFoundHouseEffortAttitudePrinciplesSeeingStyleBuildingConstantPatternsArchitectureDevicesVoidShedOld WaysHollownessSense Of Place Author:Jonathan Hale
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.” MadeEffortPrinciplesDoubtEffectsStyleDependsGeniusArchitectureGreekNo DoubtInfinityExecutionGothicGothic Architecture Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.” ShouldTodayLeftPrinciplesHellGolfArchitectureAcceptedTrappedTigersTestedRabbitsGolfing Author:Bernard Darwin
“In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles. One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions.” GivingShouldWellsMayMatterPrinciplesSubjectsArchitectureSignificanceArchitectDemonstration Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern architecture, whether the building be made of wood, stone, iron or concrete; just as the principles of harmony govern music of whatever kind. It is still necessary, then, to establish the principles of war.” KindArtMadeStillsWarPrinciplesBuildingStonesHarmonyFundamentalsWoodsArchitectureIronConcreteMechanicUnchangeable Author:Ferdinand Foch
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.” AgeLostStarsCitiesPrinciplesWatchesCrazyPrideEmptyBaseballEnglandMarketingDecadesArchitecturePlanningSymbolsErasInnocenceParksSeatsWorking ItSpeakersViolationRiceBabeMenaceEpochNew EnglandConsultantsRuthTrisQuiltsBallparksCity PlanningEvergreensEmpty SeatsFenway Park Author:Martin Nolan
“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.” IfsKindPlayLightFacesFormOrderLove IsPrinciplesTreeBuildingBirdAnd LovePatternsArchitectureFilesCabinetsLight UpMollusks Book:The Old Way of Seeing Source: The Old Way of Seeing
“Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings.” KindIdeasIndividualPrinciplesDesignBuildingFindingsArchitectureFormulasDiscoveringRegularity Author:Shigeru Ban