Francis D.K. Ching > Quotes

“In architecture volume can be seen to be either a portion of space contained and defined by wall, floor and ceiling or roof planes or a quantity of space displaced by the mass of the building.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space, & Order

“With hindsight we visualize memories of things, places, and events from the past. With foresight, we are also able to look forward in time—to use our imagination to envision a possible future. Imagination therefore enables us to have both a sense of history as well as a plan for the future. It establishes connections—visual bridges—between the past, present, and future.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Design Drawing

“Seeing is a vigorous, pattern-seeking process.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Design Drawing

“All pictorial form begins with the point that sets itself in motion… The point moves … and the line comes into being—the first dimension. If the line shifts to form a plane, we obtain a two-dimensional element. In the movement from plane to spaces, the clash of planes gives rise to body (three-dimensional) … A summary of the kinetic energies which move the point into a line, the line into a plane, and the plane into a spatial dimension.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order

“Architectural order is created when the organization of parts makes visible their relationships to each other and the structure as a whole.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space & Order

“Art is solving problems they cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space & Order