Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is someth...
For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larg...
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.
P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.
It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.
Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.
You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.
It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves.
Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life.
Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops -Henry Adams
