Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.
We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
I'm not much of a builder in 'Minecraft,' so I don't really understand how much work goes into these big projects. Seeing the flyby videos blows me away, and I have no idea how people do it.
At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which means it's not something standard that you can copy.
Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.
The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.
It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.
A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
