Blueprinting Quotes

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

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it's a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

All I'm saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process 'blueprinting' because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

My father was an architect.

I've got a design for an airship in my head, which I'm going to play around with. I've got ideas for buildings and studios and all kinds of stuff.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

I'm not an architectural composer.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

My home is in West Vancouver, B.C. My husband built it from drawings to design and colour.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.