Quotes About Construction

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.

Augmented and virtual reality technologies are the future of smart construction and we are just starting to see the possibilities.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.

the new man cannot exist without the old monster masculinity. All the new men are aware of how masculinity is constructed and therefore how they differ from its traditional form...new men do not have to "lack" the attributes of real men, and therefore make them more appealing to viewers, but it also closes down some of their potential for a revisioning of masculinity.

A arte mais fina não reside na habilidade das construções lógicas, mas em certo contacto que se espera manter sempre com o real.

You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.

tongue-in-groove walls

W]hile you believe in and construct your supra- and extra-natural God, you believe in and construct nothing else than the supra- and extra-naturalism of your own self.

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

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.

There is also the issue of debt forgiveness for some construction companies by banks,

The thin line between life and death is still under construction.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.