A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn’t see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.
Jon RonsonTag: humor oppression architecture buildings ugliness cadaver oppressive ronald-mcdonald
Architect without Pencil is like Rock-star without Guitar.
Vinayak HanchateTag: architecture
It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]
Owen HatherleyTag: criticism architecture modern manchester
The door handle is the handshake of the building.
Juhani PallasmaaTag: architecture phenomenology
Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.
Owen HatherleyTag: social architecture housing
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SocratesTag: architecture agriculture grain grain-elevators
A man doesn't borrow pieces of his body. A building doesn't borrow hunks of its soul. Its maker gives it the soul and every wall, window and stairway to express it.
Ayn RandTag: architecture objectivism
For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose "design statement" was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple cottonballs. He called it "Portrait of a Dead Camel Dancing on the Roof of a Steambath.
Mark HelprinTag: humor architecture design
A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not linear, like language. Compared to the fluidity of words, a building is atrociously clumsy, but it can be lived and inhabited as books cannot be.
Rowan MooreTag: architecture
Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the animate and inanimate and back again. For this reason it is always incomplete, or rather is only completed by the lives in and around it. It is background.
Rowan MooreTag: architecture
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