Quotes About Construction

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.

The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

You must build castles in the air, how else will you learn to build?

Nachos, like a California ranch-style home, should never be built more than two layers high.

I am really good with Lego!

I enjoy building more than managing.

steps that construction required. He answered her questions and satisfied her curiosity. And she was reluctant to see their excursion end. It had been unexpectedly pleasant. His grandmother was waiting in the living room when they got back. "So there you are." She glared at Wentworth from the sofa, where she was lounging in a

Yet an IDB auditor, Mariela Antiga, complained that the contracts were padded with "excessive costs" to build roads "no one needed." Antiga also alleged that IDB funds were going to a construction project on private land owned by former Haitian president Rene Preval—a Clinton buddy—and several of his cronies. For her efforts to expose corruption, Antiga was promptly instructed by the IDB to pack her bags and leave Haiti.6

Yes, but negative is an illusion. Negative and positive are both construction material. Negative is evolutionary catalyst. D: But you know humans consider something negative as being bad. C: They should reword it to evolutionary catalyst. We have been given on purpose these catalysts for evolution. These things that appear negative... these things are on purpose.

You looked at all the houses in your price range currently on the market, and you made your buying decision. Make sure the agent's pricing strategy is based on what buyers are going to compare your home to, including new construction, because it is competing for your buyer also.

If you're a roofer, you might be tempted to say "you'll get a good roof," but if you add the "which results in" question at the end of your statement, maybe you can take it even further.

But indeed, a home had been built.

It is necessary to avoid confusion between the strength of a structure and the strength of a material.

People just don't understand how many men it takes to build one good man. Next time you're in Manhattan and you see one of those mighty skyscrapers going up, pay attention to how many men are engaged in the enterprise. It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower.

Some people think of editing as the physical act of cutting," Hirsch says. "But that's a misconception. The French use the word montage for editing, which means 'to build.' And I think that is a more precise description.

Traditional American handicraft was employed in the wall's construction, and so most of it had collapsed.