Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
Le CorbusierStichwörter: philosophy architecture stardust detritus
He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.
Bruce RobinsonStichwörter: religion atheism architecture agnosticism churches buildings
What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?
Catherine Gilbert MurdockStichwörter: architecture stairs
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
Leon KrierStichwörter: architecture development urban-planning city
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
Leon KrierStichwörter: community architecture
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
Leon KrierStichwörter: time community architecture
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
Leon KrierStichwörter: community architecture
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.
Leon KrierStichwörter: community architecture design
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
Alain de BottonStichwörter: life art happiness melancholy sadness architecture
The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the road, a home where nobody knows your name and they're glad to see you as long as you can pay. The strip lives in the contradiction of the name Home Depot—domesticity on a gargantuan scale. Home—"a person's native place," "at ease," "deep; to the heart," says the dictionary, and Depot, "a storehouse or a 'warehouse.'" (Warehouse of the Heart?)
Howard MansfieldStichwörter: architecture sense-of-place
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