Eyes Time Men Will A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. - Christopher Wren
Beauty In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. - Christopher Wren
Architecture It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result? - Helmut Jahn
Architecture Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. - Rem Koolhaas
Architecture Today And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. - Arne Jacobsen
Architecture Now When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. - Juan Goytisolo
Architecture Men Life Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture Nothing Life Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. - Alvar Aalto