Origen Quotes

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

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

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

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Without stones there is no arch.

I'm an architect. Before you start pouring the concrete, you build a foundation that is solid so that when you take the scaffolding down, it holds - forever. So that when junior high schools are doing 'Hunchback,' a 12-year-old as Frollo still works on some level.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

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.

A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as good as the mightiest chain cable when there is no strain on it. It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong.

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

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner pillars. Timbers of the finest appearance, even if a little weak, is used for the thresholds, lintels, doors, and sliding doors, and so on. Good strong timber, though it be gnarled and knotted, can always be used discreetly in construction.

I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

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.

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.