Planet Earth
Joined March 2007
Architects who put the toilet paper holder on the wall behind the water closet do not have senior parents.
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"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy, not so much the teacup, but the tea." - Yoshio Taniguchi
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“Why is it called a building when it is already built?” - Anonymous
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“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.” - Louis Kahn
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Windowless bathrooms in tropical places are curses by architects who mindlessly mimic temperate climate designs.
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." - Steve Jobs
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A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable" - Louis Kahn
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Why I love The Matrix -
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It is no coincidence architects tend to believe there is a Supreme Architect.
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“The architect must be a prophet…” - Frank Lloyd Wright
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A building is defined as much by the invisible as it is by the visible.
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Pandemics and technology will eventually greatly alter the usage schemata of architecture.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.” – Victor Hugo
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"The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response." - Ma Yansong
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"Less is a bore." - Robert Venturi
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"Less is more." - Mies van der Rohe
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Moving forward, pandemics will be as much a game changer as technology is in re-defining architectural design use requirements.
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“A design isn’t finished until someone is using it.” - Brenda Laurel
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci
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