“When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.” PeopleYearsIdeasEarthStarsAliveThousandEternityArchitectureAstronomyPlotThousand YearsMosesGeometryPyramidsCalendarsMost Awesome Author:Walter Cronkite
“Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.” StarsGroupsEssentialsNotionProfessionArchitectureContradictionCollectivesModesty Author:Rem Koolhaas
“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
“When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.” WantedSchoolYoungActorsStarsRealizingCrazyBuildingMonthsProjectsExcitedArchitectureI RealizedComing OutMovie StarVogueNycEach MonthArchitecture School Author:Tom Ford
“So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'"” DifferentWarTogetherStarsTermInfluenceHabitArchitectureDrawingAliensDifferent ThingsSci FiConstructionRunnersBladesAsianBrazilBlade RunnerSci Fi Movie Author:Len Wiseman