Constructive Process Quotes

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

I like... piecing things together because it gives you a product that you would never have come up with just sitting down and writing on a blank slate.

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Little moments of excitement shape the sound of a record. You don't have anything, and then you start to have little parts that give you the energy to move forward because you start to see something.

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

I'll be explaining that Britain will be leaving the European Union, but I want that process to be as constructive as possible. And I hope the outcome can be as constructive as possible because of course while we're leaving the European Union, we mustn't be turning our backs on Europe.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.