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Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
Architecture is invention.
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
The material creation was made by God to be developed, cultivated, and cared for in an endless number of ways through human labor. But even the simplest of these ways is important. Without them all, human life cannot flourish.
Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
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.
Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator,
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.
To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with
construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.
The text is a limited field of possible constructions.
With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.
Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.
Creating is the means to breathe life into something that never was, could have been, or someday might be.
Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.
Architecture is an expression of values.
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.
Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.
Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.
Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression.
Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.
No construction of thought represents a label, barrier, or a full stop. Each sentence, paragraph, and page represents an exploratory probe into the unknown; each statement is an act of experimentation, investigation, creation, and growth.
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.
Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, "purely formal".
Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical
When we predicate of any thing an abstract name, we affirm of the thing that it is one or other of these five things; that it is a case of Existence, or of Co-existence, or of Causation, or of Sequence, or of Resemblance.
All life is structure.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.
We can build anything in our imagination that's where all creation begins in your life
A prototype is a question embodied
What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.
All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;
The form is the possibility of the structure.
To build you need vision;
to sustain you need strength.
We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.
When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.
Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so lone as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant; they are interested in form only.
Architecture is what nature cannot make.
Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.
I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.
Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of - stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper - won't last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance. What
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
The/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines ...
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!.
Masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected
In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.
Creation is collaboration," as
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.
Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?
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.
I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.
In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.
Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light
The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.
Design is a human ritual of understanding.
Each of us has the ability to build
Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.
Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times' ... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.
If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
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.
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.
To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.
Build-Measure-Learn-- Eric Ries
Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them.
You don't ever finish constructing yourself.
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
Constructing a strong and beautiful sentence is the highest form of architecture. Because whereupon seeing a beautiful building one may think, but to read a sentence one has to think.
Create with the heart; build with the mind.
Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.
the autonomy of syntax;