“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
“To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.” WholeBigsRoomsBreakIssuesDesignFieldsIdentityObjectsProductsArchitectureScalesRealmsBreaking DownProduct DesignSmall RoomsHolism Author:Greg Lynn
“In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.” SometimesWholeOpportunityHouseRoomsViewsDesignBuildingGardenArchitectureDramaticEpicMaintainingExhibitsSubordination Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.” MayMadeStatesGovernmentMightDesireHouseUnitedRoomsLordUnited StatesToo MuchSceneQuietOfficeDignitySimplicityArchitectureAbsenceMannersTitlesAcknowledgeThrownSenateMagnificentReposeBadgesHouse Of Lords Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.” RoomsArchitectureConnectingBreathtaking Author:Bill Henson
“I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a door, and a door before you have a room.” FirstsSometimesStrongRoomsNovelDoorsBuildingArchitectureVery Strong Author:Nicole Krauss