Day 331 – Magnificent
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Le Corbusier
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Le Corbusier
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.John Milton
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”~ Frank Gehry
“We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. I’m standin’ there on a balcony in summer air.” ~ Taylor Swift
“I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.” ~ Keith Crown
“Modern architecture is not a style, it’s an attitude” ~ Marcel Breuer
“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
“The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. … Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost […]