#about architecture

[stargazerbibi]

we should never have stopped building things we'll never see the final form of

[straccitemporanei]

About architecture + paradeigma, Multipurpose hall, Lopota, Georgia, 2014

VIA: https://afasiaarchzine.com/2024/07/about-architecture-paradeigma-multipurpose-hall-lopota/

[aandrezel]

We sat in silence for most of the rest of the ride. The City of Lights was dark and quiet, with very little foot traffic along the canal. Shops and galleries and museums—bustling in the daylight—loitered in mute shadow, without purpose. Only the occasional gas lamp flickered in the windows. Somewhere, cafés and restaurants throbbed with late-night boisterousness—that infamous Parisian joie de vie—but the park kept the revelry at arm’s length. We trundled along the river, deeper and deeper into the city’s still and contemplative heart. She had known death and resurrection so many times; perhaps it was only in the silence that she knew her own face.

Amelie Andrézel, Mementos of the Fall

[whiteiswinter]

Architecture is sort of a combination of love, mind, and reason.

(Ika Natassa, The Architecture of Love)

[ifwehadamonkey]

ya’ll know i love my documentaries, especially about architecture. i’ve got another one, sort of, that i’m gonna recommend to you. it’s on netflix and it’s called Abstract: The Art of Design and it’s been wonderful so far. so if you’re interested in art and design, i suggest checking it out. so far they’ve featured an illustrator, shoe designer, set designer, and currently i’m watching their episode on architecture. check it out.

[samaire]

it is 3 years already from the time when I was leaving UK. 3 years on university in Prague.

[marvelousruin]

Eupalinos or the Architect

Tell me, (since you are so sensible to the effects of architecture), have you not noticed, in walking about this city, that among the buildings with which it is peopled, certain are mute; other speak and others, finally - and they are the most rare - sing? It is not their purpose, nor even their general features, that give them such animation, or that reduce them to silence. These things depend upon the talent of their builder, or on the favor of the Muses.

 - Paul Valéry -