quotations and literature
"Let [the architect] be educated.
Skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history,
have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,
have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists,
and be aquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens."
Vetruvius
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
Lawrence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
"The right angle is evil."
Christopher Day
"I will not build in England... they wouldn't handle my style."
Michiel Zweers December 1997
Ernst:"so... how did Frank Lloyd Wright die?.."
Michiel:"He went back to nature."
"Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention.
It obliges you to make a kind of progress you can't even imagine in advance."
Pablo Picasso
"there really isn't anything wrong with tradition."
J.Bishop - Materials and Construction Lecturer
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocrytical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The method described by Claude Levi-Strauss in which missionaries
convert an indian village to the true faith by drastically changing the built structure
of the settlement is extremely mild in comparison
to the way in whcih we 'take care' of housing."
Sjoerd Soeters
"Why is architecture the source of so much dissatisfaction?"
Roger Stonehouse
Tadao Ando
Le Corbusier
Antoni Gaudi
some other stuff that had to be in here somewhere...
9june98