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THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness ... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
To build you need vision;
to sustain you need strength.
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
It is People that make Buildings not Buildings that make people
For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.
Some people build houses, buildings. I don't. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author
Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.
based on what the wind does, we build
Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home
Buildings are forms of performances.
Architecture is the work of nations
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
. . .building is medicine for free.
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.
We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.
Create with the heart; build with the mind.
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
And, yes, I love the process of building.
Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls.
The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations.
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.
Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Buildings have been made because of man.
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.
Those who build are greater than those who tear down.
You need to step out to build before God could bless what you are building
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
The reality of the building does not consist of the roof and walls, but the space within to be lived.
It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have windows, and not fall over.
Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.
Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..
Buildings should be good neighbours.
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.
The thing that matters is meaning! It drives everything. Builders align their attention to the things that matter to them, and they know a lot about that stuff.
I am going to design ... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.
I try to create homes, not houses.
To build is to be robbed.
Because I live in the countryside, I want a building which encourages me to have a fully formed relationship with the environment. It gives me an opportunity to not just be inside or outside, but in a range of contexts.
New ideas often need old buildings.
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
The room is the beginning of architecture.
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
[..] the actual building was old and dilapidated and remained standing more out of habit than from any inherent structural integrity [..]
With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.
I propose to build for eternity.
When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.
Nature is an increasingly influential part of building design - we are being guided by trees, rather than overwhelming them. New architecture is finding innovative methods to incorporate natural landscapes into, onto, and around buildings.
What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
But I can be happy and building at home.
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If you want to have a strong structure, build the foundations the right way.
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.
We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.
The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.
There is no house until it's built.
When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that's loved.
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
I am an architect, first.
To build something, you need sirious people. There aren't any such, or my luck is that I don't find them!
We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.
You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those compelled against their will to remain standing. A building is energy crucified against space and time.
Those who don't build must burn.
Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks.
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.