But that exploration could also heed Albert Einstein’s sage counsel:"If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods he uses...don’t listen to his words, examine his achievements." The same could well apply to architecture.
Sayfa 109Kitabı okudu
“... ölmüş bir ustanın cesareti alınıp, yön vermesi için diğer ellere ve diğer düşüncelere paylaştırılamaz. Doğrudan kopyalamaya gelince, bu açıkça imkansız. Yüzeyler bir santim aşınmışken neyi kopyalayabilirsiniz?”
- John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture-
Sayfa 67Kitabı okudu
Harnessing the climate to improve human comfort is nothing new; the Greeks and Romans well recognised the benefits of designing dwellings whose principal rooms faced south to improve thermal comfort. But in some climates, designers are met with the problem of cooling spaces to improve comfort, and here, similarly, we can look to tradition.
Sayfa 64Kitabı okudu
“For me, capturing architecture in watercolor is a quicker and easier way to get the whole structure, volume, ambience, light, and shade at the same time. And most importantly, it is as fun as singing a song along with your favorite music.”
Sayfa 97 - Kumi Matsukawa
Whilst this contextual ‘snapshot’ firmly articulates an orthodox modernist position, the so-called post-modern world has offered a range of alternatives borrowed from literature and philosophy which in turn has offered architects a whole new vocabulary of form-making well removed from what many had come to regard as a doctrinaire modernist position. In this new pluralist world which revealed itself in the last quarter of the twentieth century, architects found themselves consumed by a ‘freestyle’ which on the one hand in revivalist mode quarried the whole gamut of architectural history or on the other borrowed so-called ‘de-construction’ from the world of literature.
Sayfa 9 - 10Kitabı okudu
With us, our Priests are Administrators of all Business, Art, and Science; Directors of Trade, Commerce, Generalship, Architecture, Engineering, Education, Statesmanship, Legislature, Morality, Theology; doing nothing themselves, they are the Causes of everything worth doing, that is done by others.
if the cleric takes a shit, he might even call this act god's will (:
Architecture is a purely human creation. But since man is a product of nature, architecture will be a kind of logarithm of nature.
Trade, War and Ceremony
The synergy between the Venetian and other seapowers’ exploitation of architecture as seamark, statement of power and ceremonial space is obvious
Sayfa 134 - Yale University PressKitabı okudu
mimarlar tarikatı diyor ki:
None of us were members of any political party, but we projected a politically oriented idealism. We believed that architecture held the answer to many social and political problems.
Sayfa 95 - Ek bilgi: Nakşibendî'den ayrılmalarmış.
