Visual Materials CollectionsFrances Loeb LibraryHarvard University
Graduate School of Design
In anticipation of the assistance of
Dwelling …[is] more than
shelter.
Places represent
architecture’s share in
truth.Christian Norberg-Shulz
We must learn to see each not-wholeness expanding action (even if minor) as a bomb blast to the world
- Christopher Alexander
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
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Nils Bohr
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
“
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