Mike Pana

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.”
― Arthur Erickson

“The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a builder of forms alone, but a builder of complete ambiances.”
― Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader

“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness