why architecture?


"why anything? maybe the answer is in that. Because it is."

time beyond time

"Of all things, I honor beginnings. I believe, though, that what was has always been, and what is has always been, and what will be has always been...But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening."

the teacher

"The work of students should not be directed to the solution of problems, but rather to sensing the nature of a thing. But you cannot know a nature without getting it out of your guts. You must sense what it is, and then you can look up what other people think it is. What you sense must belong to you, and the words of teaching must not in any way belong to you, and the words of teaching must not in any way be in evidence, so completely has it been transformed into the singularity."

the architect

"Think of meaningful space and you invent an environment, and it can be your invention. Therein lies the architect."




The Glass House
Phllip Johnson
www.arcspace.com

architecture

"The only way you can build, the only way you can get the building into being, is through the measurable. You must follow the laws of nature and use quantities of brick, methods of construction, and engineering. But in the end, when the building becomes part of living, it evokes unmeasurable qualities, and the spirit of its existence takes over."


www.inhabitat.com