“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.” ThinkingHumansIdeasValuesGivenWalkingActivityCommunicateArchitectureAestheticRootedHuman ActivityAdded Value Author:Thom Mayne
“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.” SeemsCertainValuesColorArchitecturePlanesOutlinesEnergeticGreat Value Author:Antonio Gaudi
“It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.” HumansTwoCharacterValuesNaturalCreationBearsArchitectureImpressionHuman Power Book:The seven lamps of architecture Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.” WellsCountryStatesValuesBuildingMaterialsDegreesIncreaseWoodsArchitectureImprovementPermanentAcquisitionOrnamentsEdifice Book:Notes on the State of Virginia Source: Notes on the State of Virginia
“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.” TwoValuesThreeForceCitiesBalanceDisciplineLessonsStrategyChaosArchitectureBlockDistinctionAnarchyFormalIrrelevantFluidManhattanBuilderGridsMetropolis Author:Rem Koolhaas