"The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self- maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. And when a building has this fire, then it becomes a part of nature. Like ocean waves, or blade of grass, its parts are governed by the endless play of repetition and variety created in the presence of the fact that all things pass. This is the quality itself. To reach the quality without a name we must then build a living pattern language as a gate" - Christopher Alexander. Quality without a name, quality itself.
" It is very important to me to make buildings that are like instruments. They respond to light, to the movements of air, to prospect to the needs of comfort. Like musical instruments, they produce the sounds and tones of the composer. But I am not the composer, nature is the composer. The light and sounds of the land are already there. I just make the instruments that allow people to perceive these natural qualities."
" The creative process is a path of discovery. The hand makes drawings and arrives at solutions before the mind has even comprehended them." - Glenn Murcutt. Quality of buildings that are like instruments.
" I feel fusion of the senses. To hear a sound is to see its space. Space has tonality, and I imagine myself composing a space lofty, vaulted, or under a dome, attributing to it a sound character alternating with the tones of a space, narrow and high, with graduating silver, light to darkness. The spaces of architecture in their light make me want to compose a kind of music, imagining a truth fro the sense of a fusion of the disciplines and their orders. No space, architecturally, is a space unless it has natural light. Natural light has varied mood of time of the day and the season of the year. A room in architecture, a space in architecture, needs that life-giving light - light from which we were made. So silver light and the gold light and the green light and the yellow light are qualities of changeable scale or rule. This quality must inspire music. " - Louis I. Kahn. The quality which inspires music.
"Man still breathes both in and out. When is architecture going to do the same? There is a kind of spatial appreciation which makes us envy birds in flight; there is also a kind which makes us recall the sheltered enclosure of our origin. Architecture will fail if it neglects either the one or the other - labyrinthinan clarity, at any rate, sings of both. Birds nest, bird-flight, bird. (Place and occasion). Tree is leaf and leaf is tree- house is city and city is house - a tree is a tree but it is also a huge leaf - a leaf is leaf, but it is also a tiny tree - a city is not a city unless it is also a huge house - a house is a house only if it is also a tiny city" - Aldo van Eyck, Works, Compilation by Vincent Ligtelijn.7 LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE by John Ruskin
SACRIFICE- dedication of man's craft to God, as visible proofs of man's love and obedience.
TRUTH- handcrafted and honest display of materials and structure. Truth to materials and honest display of construction.
POWER- buildings should be thought of in terms of their massing and reach towards the sublimity of nature by the action of the human mind upon them and the organization of physical effort in constructing buildings.
BEAUTY- aspiration towards God expressed in ornamentation drawn from nature, his creation.
LIFE- buildings should be made by human hands, so that the joy of masons and stone carvers is associated with the expressive freedom given them.
MEMORY- buildings should represent the culture from which have developed.
OBEDIENCE- no originality for its own sake, by conforming to the finest among existing values.
" Architecture is a complicated business, a labyrinth with many contradictory channels in which architects and their clients search for information, images, solutions, beauty, and profit. Architects balance pragmatism with a desire for elegant, inspirational form.
To function in society, they nurture skills in rationalization and planning, together with a promotion of artistry and vision"...
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"A structure becomes architectural, and not structural, when its elements no longer have its justification in nature".
Guillaume Appolinaire
" All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable"
Frank Lloyd Wright
" Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human
tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded
by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families"
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