Quote of the day 18/07
The problem with 21 century architecture is that it strives to be desperately interesting. Desperately interesting architecture will not last, it will not become timeless. – Glenn Murcutt
Quote of the day 23/05
Project vs Practice If you have a project it is the architect who defines the world around him or her but, if you have a practice it is the world that defines you. – Peter Eisenman
What if money did not matter?
This short film can not me shared enough. Life is simply to short to be wasting time doing the things that don’t touch your soul! Tragedy and Hope – Narrated by Alan Watts
HOME – the place of memory
A home begins life as a blank canvas of walls ceilings and floors, room upon room of precise measure, angles and architraves, plaster, brick, wood and glass.Beautifully rendered surfaces effortlessly hide the strength of the solid foundation within and yet home is more than a design of rooms and things. Home becomes the unacknowledged witness […]
Quote of the day 14/02
You have to get people listening to you before you can change their minds – Damien Hirst
Quote of the day 14/12
I think buildings either put you to sleep or wake you up. – David Adjaye
Quote of the day 15/10
In times of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future while the learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer
Quote of the day 18/08
“In a way our buildings are ourselves. Their gestures to the world reflect our human responsiveness and our capacity to dwell and transform ourselves.” – Gregory Burgess
Quote of the day 08/05
One can look but not see. Observation is different. Observation is considered looking, or measured looking, which draws an appropriate conclusion. – Richard Leplastrier
Design’s Journey
Addressing a gathering of architects, Lady Macbeth advised, ‘Screw your courage to the sticking place, and we’ll not fail.’ Then she left the room and never identifying the sticking venue leaving that task to each architect. Many architects have spent their lives looking for that place to screw their courage to, what is it? Where […]
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