16. We must learn to see
each not-wholeness
expanding action
(even if minor) as
a bomb blast
to the world
- Christopher Alexander
17. Even architects not immune to
the charms of the places
depicted, are loath to pursue
the folksy aesthetic they see
as implied and do not want to
engage with such primitive
construction
- Peter Buchanan
18. The opposite of a fact
is falsehood,
but the opposite of
one profound truth
may very well be
another profound truth.
- Nils Bohr
21. using
architecture as a
means of
expressing other
kinds of formal
order
2011
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/05/arts/architecture-view-the-museum-that-theory-built.html
22. ^
Less the molding of space to solve
a problem than it is the concrete
realization of a theoretical idea.
Not a singular, unified object [ but ] a building that attempts to
move beyond singularity of place to a multiple, dynamic idea
of what enclosure is, what defines inside and outside.
''a building that is waiting to be a building''
1989