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the building couldn’t exist without the Bill of Quantity, as for the Quantity Surveyor—so to say. but, for an Architect, the building wouldn’t exist without a set of Drawings. in the end… architects are (but) one part of a much wider social system.

the three-stage elevation of Gothic Order: ARCADE of pointed arches, a stark—plain WALL, and CLERESTORY windows.

‘Negotiating’ is different from an uncritical and inevitable of ‘combining’.

‘Just because it has curves doesn’t mean it’s
soft’.
that—that is!

‘you’re not drawing buildings, you’re drawing ideas’.

‘The true form of architecture was decided by the choice of roof’, that reminds me of Aalto’s French client.
He wanted his house to be designed by Le Corbusier, perhaps for a sense of national pride, right?
‘But… I want a roof’, he said.
In the end, he hired Alvar Aalto—the Finnish architect—instead.
Sometimes architecture begins with just shelter logic—stubborn demand for a roof.

‘… down to earth, in touch with common sense about everyday things—not flying high in the sky of concepts and fantasies’.

‘… in ale none of that mattered; only the moment’.

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‘… the best way to start is to look out
of the window at le temps’.

The moment you raise your voice and lose your temper, you lose the argument; through studied politeness, the battle is won.

‘Greed is what fuels this man – greed and revenge’. The best motivations for a ‘low’ man to do just about anything, I find.

be modest and light-foot enough, allow vision to be adjusted to the circumstances—be contextual.

the parlour placed against the stair room, so naturally the space beneath the stairs becomes a storage for it. the dining hall or what they call refectory—the eating room for communal meals—is placed near, by, or even above the river. Opposite its entrance, a pavilion containing a fountain which got its water from uncontaminated spring. the river is used for washing dishes.

‘… between architecture as it
wants to be and architecture as it is’.

the morning light filtered through three east-facing windows in an enclosed room dignified the space—no door, just opening for access on the west side with a pair of bays with raised opening on its sides, lit behind the arcade walk of the cloister.

‘purity is a myth’.

wanking the limped in front of Grace

?would it be so america—let’s see …

‘gaudy red’.

It is in Sheffield, at the Arts Tower.

‘shape both the volume of the buildings and the volume of the space between the buildings at the same time… indoor space and outdoor space, like yin and yang, must always get their shape together’.

‘… England is changing. The wheels of industry turn ever onwards and the trees are falling still’.
so… how about Indonesia, not just trees but the whole forest were gone! there comes floods, disasters sprawling everywhere.

‘…no man ever got wealthy off blood and offal—no, but he never get his neck snapped neither.’ alright! well—we’ll see.

when informality is an essential characteristic of the nature of the place, echoing the vernacular architecture could stimulate visitors to consider the nature that surrounds them.

a visit to a park is a less urban and more involved experience than visiting a city garden—between park and city garden.

process, beauty and details! don’t waste your time—tell the truth.

ain’t the first—that hurts

courtyards are being use as a modifier of climate—narrow channels of moving water lead through courtyards and buildings to cool the environment.
courtyards is the key architectural element for KHA (especially throughout the Dubai project).

the colossal man had said, ‘sometimes, the bravest thing to do is just to keep going.’