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“There is a strong identity between the naked skin and the sensation of home. The experience of home is essentially an experience of intimate warmth.”
Juhani Pallasmaa
Good architecture should receive the human visitor, should enable him to experience it and live in it, but it should not constantly talk at him.
Peter Zumthor.
Time does not pass in architecture, it accumulates.
Daivd Leatherbarrow,
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can counteract the waste of forms and meanings.
Peter Zumthor.
What is aural in music is spatial in architecture.
Simon Unwin.
A squiggle is free and fluid but not random; its curves are related to the geometry of the hand and the arm.
Simon Unwin.
As we look, the eye touches, and before we see an object we have already touched it and judged its weight, temperature and surface texture.
Juhani Pallasmaa
The door handle is the handshake of a building.
Juhani Pallasmaa.
Architecture is most appealing with simple lines and clear ideas. A city, on the other hand, becomes alive when it is rich with experiences and surprises. So the paradoxical challenge is to simultaneously create simplicity and variety, diversity and coherence. In other words, to create a city in the building
Bjarke Ingels
To make an extraordinary material special, is banal. To heighten one’s awareness of a humble material like brick, is poetic.
Adam Caruso
Non architects have trouble reading a plan, it’s like trying to envisage the shape of a body by reading footprints in the snow
David Leatherbarrow
Juhani Pallasmaa
Good architecture should receive the human visitor, should enable him to experience it and live in it, but it should not constantly talk at him.
Peter Zumthor.
Time does not pass in architecture, it accumulates.
Daivd Leatherbarrow,
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can counteract the waste of forms and meanings.
Peter Zumthor.
What is aural in music is spatial in architecture.
Simon Unwin.
A squiggle is free and fluid but not random; its curves are related to the geometry of the hand and the arm.
Simon Unwin.
As we look, the eye touches, and before we see an object we have already touched it and judged its weight, temperature and surface texture.
Juhani Pallasmaa
The door handle is the handshake of a building.
Juhani Pallasmaa.
Architecture is most appealing with simple lines and clear ideas. A city, on the other hand, becomes alive when it is rich with experiences and surprises. So the paradoxical challenge is to simultaneously create simplicity and variety, diversity and coherence. In other words, to create a city in the building
Bjarke Ingels
To make an extraordinary material special, is banal. To heighten one’s awareness of a humble material like brick, is poetic.
Adam Caruso
Non architects have trouble reading a plan, it’s like trying to envisage the shape of a body by reading footprints in the snow
David Leatherbarrow