Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

I pour concrete. I'm a construction guy.

I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as 'inherent buildability', and I believe it is central to what I do.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.