Some thoughts about Architecture
ARCHITECTURE IS NOT ONLY FOR THE EYE - Mixed technique by Adrian Tuchel
“The hands want to see, the eyes want to caress” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not”. Adolf Loos
“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I'm finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it's wrong”. Buckminster Fuller
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness”. Frank Gehry
“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines”. Frank Lloyd Wright
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.” Le Corbusier
“I try to create homes, not houses”. Louis Kahn
“God is in the details”. Mies van der Rohe
“You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house”. Renzo Piano
“I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings”. Toyo Ito
“Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space … On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure”. Zaha Hadid
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture”. Constantin Brancusi
“It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man”. Michelangelo
“When we build, let us think that we build forever”. John Ruskin
“There is no branch of trade or manufacture in this country but requires the artists’s aid and who so proper as the architect to do it, even the painter and sculptor in their highest departments and the whole of the arts and sciences are but decorations to the walls of a palace or church or house, and all should emanate from the architect’s genius”. Joseph Gandy