Quotes About Structure

USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides.

My work is formal, not based on psychology.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

The Libor system is structurally flawed. It is a major problem for our financial system and for the confidence in the financial system. We need to address it.

When you build a house, you have to start from the floor. You have to start from the bottom, the defence, and then you fix the attack.

The model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think that's the absolute wrong model.

I like to work in a team. And for that you must have a structure that covers everything and that there is fluid communication.

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

BoJack' is a very much a format-based show. The story should always match the format, but I don't necessarily think the story has to come first.

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

Buildings are forms of performances.

The law is the foundation of our society.

Without foundations, there can be no fashion.

I am an organization freak!

I feel like doing Las Culturistas' for an extended period of time has taught me where to put the fulcrum on having structure and having looseness.

Form follows function.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.