some of my favorites from my sketch book of quotes.
"I don't discuss 'architecture' with my clients" Dr. Kenneth Yeang
" For any material object to obtain freedom, its handler has to lose control of it." Robin Evans
"The idea is that any city is a palimpset of old and new so the architect must both save and destroy as the new is created." EOM
"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know its going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt." Prising
"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which "sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. But of course, without the top you can't have the sides. It’s the top that defines the sides." Prising
"Wright, Le Corbusier, Kahn - they all want to tell us the way it is. This is the way it is. It’s like this. But it’s not like this. I would like to make a premise out of the idea of the evolving premise. You come to the truth momentarily, then you lose it again." EOM
"You don't want to polish a turd. Anyone can polish a turd, but none the less it remains a turd." Linkin Park
The choice of form is finally the architect’s endeavour and the result of one undeniable freedom. Even though we architects often claim that the zeitgeist dominates our own personal expression I would say that the individual freedom is prevalent.
"Its a building, I designed it. Of course its architecture!" - Will Alsop hits back at his critics for dimissing his project in Canada as 'not architecture'.
Due to a thread's constant ability to pierce the bubble (and I just heard this song again after awhile)
Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place at your command
Can I stay here for a while
Can I see your sweet sweet smile
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same?
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
Hello ruby in the dust
Has your band begun to rust
After all the sin we’ve had
I was hopin’ that we turn back
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
Hello woman of my dreams
This is not the way it seems
Purple words on a grey background
To be a woman and to be turned down
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry lee lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
Ding dang a dong bong bing bong
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Everytime I try to do it all now baby
Am I on the run
Why why why why why baby
If it’s so evil then?
Give me my time, with all my power
Give it to me all again (wow)
Ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong
Every where I go
Everytime you tell me baby
When I settle down
Got to get me a trailer park
And hold my world around
Why why why why?
Ding ding donga dong dong ding dong
Dingy dingy son of a gun
Half my time I tell you baby
Never am I all for sure
Why why why why why baby
Sicky sicky from within
Everytime I stick my finger on in ya
You’re a wild wild little town bitch
Now how ’bout ding a dang dong dong dong ling long
Dingy a dingy dong a down
Everytime you tell me baby
When I settle down
Got to get me a trailer park
And hold my world around
Why why why why?
In my dang a ding a ding a ding dong
A sticky sticky son of a gun
Ding a danga danga dong dong ding dong
Why why never know
Why why wack a dong a dang ding dong
Then you take it on the bill
Ding dang dong don’t dong
Whoa!
I wanna love ya!
Why why why, why why darling
Do you do you tell me to play?
Half the time I talk about it all now baby
You know what I’m talkin’ about I said
Why why why it’ll
Ticky ticky ticky ticky
Son of a gun
Ding ding dong a bong bong bing bong
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Bing bing bang a bang a bang bing bong bing a bing bang a bong
Binga bing a bang a bong bong bing bong bing banga bong
Bing bing bang a bong bong bing bing binga binga banga bong
Bing bing bang a bang bang bing bong
Aarrrhhhh...
Ding dang a dang bong bing bong
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Everytime I try to do it all now baby
Am I on the run
Why why why
It’ll ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky
Dawn of a gun
Bing bing bang a bong a bong bing bang a
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Bing bip bip a bop bop boom bam
Ticky ticky through the day
If you got a doubt ’bout baby
The memory is on the bed
Why why why why why
Darlin’ uh it don’t know
When my time is on
Might tell me never do it on his own
If my time was all as is yours
Make me burn a wish
When my time with you is brutish
No I’ll never not ever
Why why why why why why baby heavy hell
Alone and it’s here it’s this thunder
The thunder oh thunder
Oh!
Jesus built my car
It’s a love affair
Mainly jesus and my hot rod
"To talk to me about sustainability is like talking to me about giving
birth. Am I against giving birth? No. But would I like to spend my time
doing it? Not really. I'd rather go to a baseball game."
-Peter Eisenman
el jeffe, I think you and I were both at Beethoven at the same time.
famous architectural quotes...
some of my favorites from my sketch book of quotes.
"I don't discuss 'architecture' with my clients" Dr. Kenneth Yeang
" For any material object to obtain freedom, its handler has to lose control of it." Robin Evans
"The idea is that any city is a palimpset of old and new so the architect must both save and destroy as the new is created." EOM
"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know its going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt." Prising
"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which "sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. But of course, without the top you can't have the sides. It’s the top that defines the sides." Prising
"Wright, Le Corbusier, Kahn - they all want to tell us the way it is. This is the way it is. It’s like this. But it’s not like this. I would like to make a premise out of the idea of the evolving premise. You come to the truth momentarily, then you lose it again." EOM
"You don't want to polish a turd. Anyone can polish a turd, but none the less it remains a turd." Linkin Park
i feel like you've invited me over for thanksgiving dinner and you've
given me a lot of pumpkin pie but not enough turkey.
-lou inserra when evaluating my project.
my response was that some people don't really like turkey...
"What do you think?"
- what pushy clients invariably ask AFTER the project is done THEIR WAY!
form follows finger
The choice of form is finally the architect’s endeavour and the result of one undeniable freedom. Even though we architects often claim that the zeitgeist dominates our own personal expression I would say that the individual freedom is prevalent.
-R. Moneo (Royal Gold Medal Lecture)
"Its a building, I designed it. Of course its architecture!" - Will Alsop hits back at his critics for dimissing his project in Canada as 'not architecture'.
Brendon......YOU SUCKS!
Brendon....the difference between you and Kahn is that he had talent!
Hwai Chen, AIA
'take your pleasure seriously'
charles eames
definitions:
human is...what human humans ARE most of the time.
intelligence is...what human beings DO most of the time.
Teddy Kruger (spelling might be wrong) lecture at the Bertlett.
Due to a thread's constant ability to pierce the bubble (and I just heard this song again after awhile)
Hello cowgirl in the sand
Is this place at your command
Can I stay here for a while
Can I see your sweet sweet smile
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same?
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
Hello ruby in the dust
Has your band begun to rust
After all the sin we’ve had
I was hopin’ that we turn back
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
Hello woman of my dreams
This is not the way it seems
Purple words on a grey background
To be a woman and to be turned down
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same
It’s the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.
-Neil Young
alpha- you hippy!
It was a great time when Neil drove a hearse!
too true gustav.
DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE!
-GOD-
"Form follows idea..."
-David Adjaye
(Function changes too rapidly to be defined)
"God is dead, the author is dead, history is dead, only the architect is left standing... an insulting evolutionary joke..."
rem
"if a brick didn't know how to stand on walls no more, what would you ask it?"
Old Dirty Bastard
Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry lee lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
Ding dang a dong bong bing bong
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Everytime I try to do it all now baby
Am I on the run
Why why why why why baby
If it’s so evil then?
Give me my time, with all my power
Give it to me all again (wow)
Ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong
Every where I go
Everytime you tell me baby
When I settle down
Got to get me a trailer park
And hold my world around
Why why why why?
Ding ding donga dong dong ding dong
Dingy dingy son of a gun
Half my time I tell you baby
Never am I all for sure
Why why why why why baby
Sicky sicky from within
Everytime I stick my finger on in ya
You’re a wild wild little town bitch
Now how ’bout ding a dang dong dong dong ling long
Dingy a dingy dong a down
Everytime you tell me baby
When I settle down
Got to get me a trailer park
And hold my world around
Why why why why?
In my dang a ding a ding a ding dong
A sticky sticky son of a gun
Ding a danga danga dong dong ding dong
Why why never know
Why why wack a dong a dang ding dong
Then you take it on the bill
Ding dang dong don’t dong
Whoa!
I wanna love ya!
Why why why, why why darling
Do you do you tell me to play?
Half the time I talk about it all now baby
You know what I’m talkin’ about I said
Why why why it’ll
Ticky ticky ticky ticky
Son of a gun
Ding ding dong a bong bong bing bong
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Bing bing bang a bang a bang bing bong bing a bing bang a bong
Binga bing a bang a bong bong bing bong bing banga bong
Bing bing bang a bong bong bing bing binga binga banga bong
Bing bing bang a bang bang bing bong
Aarrrhhhh...
Ding dang a dang bong bing bong
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Everytime I try to do it all now baby
Am I on the run
Why why why
It’ll ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky
Dawn of a gun
Bing bing bang a bong a bong bing bang a
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Bing bip bip a bop bop boom bam
Ticky ticky through the day
If you got a doubt ’bout baby
The memory is on the bed
Why why why why why
Darlin’ uh it don’t know
When my time is on
Might tell me never do it on his own
If my time was all as is yours
Make me burn a wish
When my time with you is brutish
No I’ll never not ever
Why why why why why why baby heavy hell
Alone and it’s here it’s this thunder
The thunder oh thunder
Oh!
Jesus built my car
It’s a love affair
Mainly jesus and my hot rod
Yeah, fuck it!
Ministry w/Gibby Haynes(sp)
"Architecture students are like virgins with an itch they cannot scratch. Never build a building till you're 50, what kind of life is that?"
Quote from a song by Pavement
"how the fuck do you spell 'ARCHITECTURE' "?
my boss...yesterday...while doing an RFP...it's so sad!
"To talk to me about sustainability is like talking to me about giving
birth. Am I against giving birth? No. But would I like to spend my time
doing it? Not really. I'd rather go to a baseball game."
-Peter Eisenman
el jeffe, I think you and I were both at Beethoven at the same time.
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